In UP's Prayagraj, PM Modi's Cash Scheme Outreach To Women Voters

PM Modi is taking the lead role in the BJP's campaign in the politically crucial state where elections are likely to start in less than two months.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj today to participate in what the government says will be a "one of its kind programme" that will be attended by over two lakh women. This will be the 10th day the prime minister will spend in Uttar Pradesh in just the last month as he leads the BJP's campaign in the politically crucial state where elections are likely to start in less than two months.

In front page ads across newspapers , the government said the programme - held as per 'the vision of the Prime Minister to empower women' - will see PM Modi transfer around Rs 1,000 crore in the bank account of Self Help Groups (SHGs), benefitting around 16 lakh women members of the SHGs

While the event is being organised by the government, it is expected to be similar to recent events that have taken place in Uttar Pradesh in the last month - with the PM using government events to take digs at the opposition, particularly Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, including calling him a terrorist sympathiser at one such event. Mr Yadav has hit back challenging the BJP to organise a rally on its own without using government infrastructure. 

"This transfer is being done under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM), with 80,000 SHGs receiving Community Investment Fund (CIF) of Rs. 1.10 lakh per SHG and 60,000 SHGs receiving Revolving Fund of Rs. 15000 per SHG," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a press release.