Sandeep Dikshit files complaint against AAP's women’s scheme

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Sandeep Dikshit files complaint against AAP's women’s scheme

Friday, 27 December 2024 | Staff Reporter | New Delhi

Congress candidates from New Delhi constituency and former MP Sandeep Dikshit submitted a complaint against AAP's 'Mahila Samman Yojana', alleging that the party was committing a fraud on Delhiites. The son of three-time Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit also alleged that the AAP government in Punjab had sent policemen in plain clothes to Delhi to collect “electoral information”, an act amounting to spying. The Congress leader alleged two Punjab cops were recently spotted near his house, confirming the alleged misuse of Punjab government machinery in Delhi.

In the complaint filed by Dikshit, he alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers were collecting phone numbers and addresses of women by making them fill out forms for a scheme that does not exist.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal announced that the 'Mahila Samman Yojana' was already operational in the city which is not the case, Dikshit said.

“I want cheating cases to be filed against Kejriwal and the Chief Minister. The data collected from women should be confiscated and returned to each of them. The personal details of women can even be misused,” he said, sharing his plans to give a written complaint to Lieutenant-Governor Saxena.

"Any political party can promise anything. If they had said that they would give Rs 2,100 if they win the elections, then there was no issue. But they said that a scheme of Rs 1,000 is going on, and they will convert it to Rs 2,100. And they are making you (women) fill forms for the scheme," Dikshit said.

"We are saying that if this is a case of fraud, then it should be investigated and a case should be filed against the two people -- Atishi and Kejriwal -- who have committed this fraud. All AAP workers should be stopped (from collecting information) and the Delhi Police must ensure that no such thing happens in the future," Dikshit added.

A Delhi government department on Wednesday said there is no such scheme. The data being collected for this scheme is a case of fraud, he said, adding that they are collecting the phone numbers and addresses from the women.

The Delhi government's Women and Child Development and Health departments issued public notices on Wednesday distancing themselves from the ruling AAP's promised schemes of providing Rs 2,100 to women and free treatment for the elderly, triggering a fresh row ahead of assembly polls.

The two departments also cautioned the people against providing personal details to anyone on the pretext of registration for "non-existent" schemes, saying any private individual or political party collecting such physical forms or information is "fraudulent and without any authority".

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