Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday alleged that the BJP has been left with “nothing but money” to win the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, reacting to media reports about a possible announcement of Rs 20,000 dole for women in the state.
Yadav, in a post on X, described the reported proposal as “another jumla” of the BJP and alleged that the money being offered was “the earnings of its sins.”
“The BJP has nothing left except money to win elections. That too is the BJP’s ill-gotten money, which the religious-minded women of Uttar Pradesh will never accept,” he said.
“Awakened women of Uttar Pradesh are asking that in the other states where elections were won after announcing money for women, on one hand they are reluctant to give it, while on the other they are demanding the money back. And against women who are unable to return it, the BJP is taking the reprehensible route of police stations, courts and cases,” Yadav said.
“Today, the BJP government is talking about giving Rs 50,000 annually, but it could have given this money during the last 10 years as well, but it did not,” he said.
Yadav also repeated the news reports’ claim to say that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government spent “thousands of crores of rupees meant for the rights and entitlements of women” on publicity.
He calculated that Rs 50,000 annually over 10 years would amount to Rs 5 lakh and said the reported Rs 20,000 proposal would be only four per cent of that amount.
“The BJP’s corrupt government has eaten up Rs 5 lakh belonging to women over the last 10 years and is now serving the jumla of giving only Rs 20,000. Rs 20,000 is only four per cent of Rs 5 lakh, which means these BJP people have swallowed 96 per cent of women’s share,” he alleged.
The SP chief also said that even if the BJP gave Rs 20,000, the government would still owe the public Rs 4.8 lakh. “If the jumla of Rs 15 lakh is left aside.” The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged that BJP workers had gone “underground” due to fear of public anger and that the party was relying on money because it had lost face.
“After theft in the temple and attacks on children, the BJP has neither morality nor courage left,” he said.
In his post, Yadav repeated his party’s promise: “We will start with Rs 40,000, with an increase every year.” Yadav had earlier announced the Rs 40,000-a-year proposal for women if the SP returns to power.
