Bengaluru: AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra unveiled on Monday the Gruhalakshmi Yojana scheme at the party’s ‘Naa Nayaki’ (I am a leader) rally in Bengaluru.

The Congress party promised Rs 2K per month as financial aid to woman heads and unemployed housewives of every household if the party is voted to power in Karnataka in the Assembly polls due in April/May this year. Last week the party had announced 200 units of free electricity to all households in the state if voted to power in the State.

The party said the scheme will benefit over 1.5 crore women and the amount will directly be credited to the accounts of the woman heads of families. Priyanka in her address at a rally criticized that the Central government over price rise and unemployment, said the Gruhalakshmi scheme will help women run their households by overcoming the burden of price rise and increase in LPG prices.

I will not criticise BJP, but have a question for women folks. Has your life changed in the past 7-8 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule, and have your children got jobs? she asked the audience, who said no in unison. She said that under Modi’s rule, which is in favour of the capitalists, the rich have become richer while the poor have turned poorer.

She highlighted the schemes of the Congress party when it was in power, including the land reforms, the Rs 8,000 crore loan waiver to farmers, ‘Annabhagya’, Indira Canteens, Ksheera Bhagya, and the Matrupoorna schemes which the previous Siddaramaiah-led government had implemented.

She criticized the Karnataka BJP government, saying that it required bribes for every work in the government to get done from Driving License to drilling borewells. Even the posts of the Police Sub Inspectors were being sold out. Is it to face this fate that you educated your children in anticipation of jobs?