For the first time, the MP Congress is preparing a separate election manifesto for women for the assembly elections. In the promissory note, with the promise of giving one and a half thousand rupees per month to women, providing cooking gas cylinders for five hundred rupees, to reduce the burden of inflation on the family, three hundred units of electricity for three hundred rupees and a separate scheme for self-employment is included. The manifesto will be released by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the proposed women's rally in May-June.
Notably, the State Congress had also issued a manifesto in the year 2018 elections, in which many provisions were kept for women. This time it has been decided to issue a separate manifesto for women. The committee constituted under the chairmanship of former Assembly Speaker Rajendra Kumar Singh has prepared its draft.
Preliminary discussions have also taken place with State Congress President Kamal Nath. In this, interest-free loans for self-employment to women, recruitment on vacant posts on priority basis, giving maximum works of government schemes to self-help groups and other provisions are being made.
The Mahila Congress will be given the responsibility of publicising the election manifesto among the women. KK Mishra, president of the party's media department, said that 50 percent of the population is of women. State President Kamal Nath is trying to enter the election field with a new attitude so that he gets respect and rights. The state president himself is preparing for this.
As on January 1, 2023, there are a total of five crore 39 lakh 87 thousand 876 voters in the state. Of these, there are two crore 60 lakh 23 thousand 733 women voters. In the 230-member assembly, Dindori, Bichhia, Niwas, Mandla, Baihar, Paraswara, Balaghat, Varasivani, Barghat, Pansemal, Alirajpur, Jhabua, Petlawad, Sardarpur, Kukshi, Thandla constituencies have more women voters than men. There are currently 21 women MLAs in the assembly, including 14 from the BJP, six from the Congress and one from the BSP.
