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PATNA: Congress's announcement that it would administer 5 lakh sanitary pad boxes nether its "Priyadarshini Udaan Yojana" triggered a governmental tempest successful Bihar connected Friday aft images of enactment MP Rahul Gandhi appeared connected the boxes.
NDA criticised the move, calling it a "direct insult" to women, who person emerged arsenic cardinal voters successful caller authorities elections.Bihar Congress president Rajesh Kumar, speaking successful the beingness of All India Mahila Congress main Alka Lamba, said the strategy was aimed astatine promoting menstrual hygiene consciousness among agrarian women. "We person a peculiar program for womenfolk successful Bihar. We program to supply escaped sanitary napkins to women for which we volition motorboat an intensive campaign," Kumar told reporters.
However, contention erupted erstwhile helium held up a sanitary pad container displaying Rahul's photograph alongside the INDIA bloc's projected "Mai-Bahin Maan Yojana", which promises Rs 2,500 monthly to women if voted into govt.JD(U) MLC and spokesperson Neeraj Kumar accused Congress of degrading the dignity of women. "Congress seems to person taken a leafage retired of the publication of its ally, RJD, which has been known for a lumpen benignant of politics.
Our person Nitish Kumar has been moving tirelessly for women's empowerment and the results are for each to see. But Congress has insulted the dignity of women," helium said.BJP spokesperson Kuntal Krishna echoed the sentiment. "Whatever needs to beryllium done for women successful Bihar is being done by govt. But Congress, which is disquieted astir its prospects successful the upcoming assembly polls, has shown its ideological bankruptcy. Its leader, Rahul Gandhi, has been notorious for lacking a consciousness of propriety.
The trait seems to person afflicted the party, successful which sycophancy reigns supreme," helium said.Women expressed disapproval of the design. "This is thing but an insult to women who volition find the representation of a antheral portion utilizing the sanitary pads... Congress is stooping excessively debased to triumph the enactment of women voters," said Pinki Kumari of Muzaffarpur. "If Congress thinks it volition get enactment from women by distributing escaped napkins with the representation of Rahul, past it is sheer stupidity," she added, arguing the absorption should person been connected women's safety."Rahul is trying to look arsenic a 'Pad Man' but that is not the mode to motorboat a enactment campaign," said Sunita Singh of Vaishali.Defending the campaign, Lamba said, "In the modern era, the question should not beryllium wherefore Rahul-ji's photograph was enactment connected the sanitary napkin box, the existent question is wherefore our daughters successful Bihar are inactive forced to usage cloth during menstruation and go victims of superior diseases?"She besides criticised BJP's response. "From a 'sindoor box' to vaccine certificates, BJP, which prints Modi-ji's photograph connected everything, is present troubled by Rahul-ji's photo. The enactment that govt should person done, we person started," Lamba said, crediting Rahul's "inspiration and visionary thinking" for making the run possible.(With PTI inputs)
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