NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the govt.’s scheme to supply Rs 10,000 to 75 lakh girls in Bihar, alleging that he’s participating in “vote revdi” alongside “vote chori”. Congress basic secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh stated that whereas PM Modi criticised the Karnataka govt’s Griha Lakshmi scheme, which supplies Rs 2,000 per thirty days to 1.3 crore girls, the PM is now implementing an identical initiative. In a publish on X, Ramesh famous that the Karnataka authorities had been providing Rs 2,000 month-to-month to 1.3 crore girls beneath the Griha Lakshmi scheme for the previous two years.“The prime minister has been repeatedly criticizing it,” he claimed. “And simply yesterday, the Prime Minister introduced an OTP – One Time Cost – for the ladies of Bihar – that too, just some days earlier than the implementation of the code of conduct.” “Together with ‘vote chori’, the Prime Minister is now additionally engaged in distributing vote ‘revri’ (vote doles). That is clearly a determined step, which the ladies of Bihar will perceive very effectively,” Ramesh wrote in his publish in Hindi. Claiming that the countdown for the Bihar govt has already begun, he added, “Nitish Kumar has now develop into the previous – and when the outcomes come, Prime Minister Modi can even develop into the previous.” PM Modi on Friday nearly launched the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, beneath which 75 lakh girls in poll-bound Bihar obtained Rs 10,000 every to assist self-employment and livelihood actions. Beginning with an preliminary monetary assist of Rs 10,000, the scheme can present as much as Rs 2 lakh based mostly on the success of the enterprise beneath the Rs 7,500-crore challenge, an initiative of the NDA govt within the state aimed toward selling girls’s financial empowerment. Meeting elections in Bihar are due later this 12 months.