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Ranchi, Sept 23: JMM MLA and Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren today dared the BJP to stop the Mukhyamantri Maiyaan Samman Yojana under which women aged 18 to 50 years will get Rs 1000 honorarium every month.
‘Maiyaan’ is a word used affectionately for addressing a girl/daughter in Jharkhand.
Maiyaan Samman Yatra
Kalpana, addressing a meeting organised at Bashidhar Nagar in Garhwa to launch the Maiyaan Samman Yatra’, said the Maiyaan Samman Yojana got delayed after the BJP conspired and put Hemant ji in jail for five months.
“Today you are getting the second instalment of this scheme, but this would have been your seventh instalment if Hemant ji was not in jail for five months,” she told a cheering crowd of women.
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“Hemant ji had made full preparations for this. If he was not in jail, 7 to 8 thousand rupees would have been in your account. The money that you have not received is due to the BJP’s poor thinking,” she maintained.
Kalpana, who steered the JMM-Congress combine during the Lok Sabha elections in the absence of Hemant Soren, said, “They (BJP) have not only put Hemant ji in jail but have also put all the welfare schemes of Jharkhand in jail.”
BJP has a PIL master to stop welfare schemes
Criticising the PIL filed in the Jharkhand High Court, challenging the yojana, Kalpana said the BJP has a PIL master with which it files PILs to stop every welfare scheme which Hemant Soren implements.
“But we want to warn that now whatever schemes of Jharkhand, whether for sisters, for daughters, for elders, for brothers, for grandfathers, these schemes are going to run like this, if BJP can stop it then it should stop it,” she thundered.
Notably, the government launched the ‘yatra’ to counter the BJP narrative of it being a pre-election bonanza. The BJP, during its ‘Parivartan Yatra’ has been telling the people that the scheme will be dumped once the JMM retains power.
According to the Jharkhand government plan, there will be 25,000 public meetings across the state. In the first phase, the programme will start from the Garhwa, Medininagar and Latehar districts of the Palamu division under the leadership of Minister Baby Devi and MLA Kalpana Soren. Local ministers, MLAs and local public representatives will also participate on this occasion.
