MP: With eye on polls, Congress announces Rs 1,500 monthly assistance for women, cooking gas cylinder at Rs 500

Narsinghpur (MP), Mar 19 (PTI) The Congress on Sunday said women in Madhya Pradesh will get a monthly aid of Rs 1,500 and a cooking gas cylinder will be made available for Rs 500 if the party is voted to power in the upcoming Assembly polls.

Making the announcement, state Congress president Kamal Nath slammed Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, saying the CM was making a slew of hollow promises before the polls to remain in power.     The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress are trying to outsmart each other to woo women voters in the state, where polls are due later this year.

Weeks earlier, Chouhan had launched "Ladli Behna Yojana" rolling out a Rs 1,000 monthly help for women whose family income is less than 2.5 lakh per annum. A provision of Rs 8,000 crore was made in the recent state Budget proposal.