Congress announced its Nari Nyay Guarantee on Wednesday in which it promised financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh to women from poor families. The Congress made 5 key announcements: Savitri Phule Hostel, Adhikar Maitri, Shakti Ka Samman, Aadi Aabadi Poora Haq and Mahalaxmi

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said Aadi Aabadi Poora Haq – Under this women will have rights over half of the new recruitments at the central government level. Shakti Ka Samman – under this the central government’s contribution to the monthly income of Anganwadi, ASHA and midday meal workers will be doubled.

Kharge said to empower women with knowledge and awareness of their rights, Congress plans to appoint a paralegal professional in every panchayat, tasked with educating and assisting women in navigating legal frameworks effectively.

The 5^th and final initiative is aimed at addressing the need for safe and affordable accommodation for working women, under which it will construct at least 1 hostel for working women at every district headquarters. Kharge said before this they have declared participatory justice, farmer justice and youth justice.

He said The Congress guarantees are not empty promises and statements. He said his words are set in stone. He said it is Congress’s record from 1926 till now, when the party’s opponents were being born, the Congress has been making manifestos and fulfilling those declarations. Kharge asked the people to keep giving their blessings to the party and strengthen its fight to save the constitution and the democracy.

Earlier last week Rahul Gandhi made 5 major election promises which were aimed at young voters. He promised guaranteed apprenticeship of all degree/diploma holders with a stipend of Rs 1 lakh per year. Rahul Gandhi said in Rajasthan that Congress brought MNREGA which benefitted lakhs of people. He said Pehli Naukri Pakki is going to be a scheme like that.

Haryana’s new Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday won the trust vote in the State Assembly. The development came a day after he took an oath of office after the resignation of former Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and the BJP breaking alliance with Dushyant Chautala’s JJP over Lok Sabha seat-sharing contestation.

Addressing the Haryana Assembly, CM Saini praised Khattar for his work as the former Chief Minister and said that he focused on improving governance in the State. The newly-elected CM made an appeal to all the members of the House to support his government. He said even the people of Haryana have confidence in his government.

Emphasising his government’s work in Haryana, he said that innumerable works have been done by his government. It will take a lot of time if he mentions it all, he said. Saini said he has come here seeking confidence to serve the people of Haryana, and to launch new programs for the welfare of the State, for the people of the State, CM Saini asserted.

Expressing gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and all the Union Ministers and especially to Khattar, he said that he comes from a very humble family background, no one is in politics in his family. Said added that he is just a party worker of the BJP and today he has been given such a big opportunity. He further added that this can be only possible in a party like the BJP.

Even after the JJP issued a whip to its legislators asking them to not present for the no-confidence motion, four JJP MLAs including Devender Babli, Ram Kumar Gautam, Ishwar Singh and Jogi Ram Sihag were present in the House.

While addressing the Assembly, the former Haryana CM Khattar announced his resignation as MLA from the Karnal constituency. Although, Khattar is an MLA from Karnal, while Nayab Saini has yet not contest the Assembly elections. He also has to contest Assembly polls.

So, he announced his resignation in the House today from the Karnal Vidhan Sabha seat and asked Nayab Saini, from now onwards, to take care of the Karnal constituency.

Meanwhile, a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) seeking quashing of the appointment of the Chief Minister of Haryana, Nayab Singh Saini, has been filed at the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The case is yet to be listed for hearing, as per the reports. 

The BJP on Wednesday responded to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s criticism of the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Citizenship Amendment Act does not deprive any Indian of their citizenship, but gives citizenship to those who are persecuted based on their faith.

The BJP leader said Kejriwal’s peculiar statement came that outsiders will take away jobs due to the CAA. He asked what kind of logic is this? He said the people who will come to India are those who are persecuted on the basis of their religion. He asked is it not India’s moral duty and constitutional and cultural right to provide them with legal means of citizenship protection?

Prasad talking to the media said everybody should be assured that nobody’s jobs will be taken away. He said he wanted to stop those who are trying to spread communal tension in the name of CAA. He asked Kejriwal to stop spreading lies. He further added that parties from Kerala and Tamil Nadu should stop spreading hatred.

The Central government on Monday gave notification for the rules for the implementation of the CAA, 4 years after the law was passed by the Parliament in 2019. This law gives fast track citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who came to India before December 31, 2014.

Earlier today the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attacked the Modi government over implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act and called it dirty vote bank politics aimed at taking away jobs which are meant for Indian youth. The AAP leader added if those people are brought to India and selectively settled in constituencies where the BJP government is politically weak, the vote bank of the BJP will rise. He added this increase in vote bank will give BJP a big political advantage in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.