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Digital scheme has given Cong the jitters: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje

The CM said that the government wanted to empower women and smart phones will help them get information about the government schemes.

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Chief minister Vasundhara Raje being welcomed by women in Ramgarh.
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Chief minister Vasundhara Raje shot back on critics of Bhamashah Digital Scheme in Alwar on Friday where she addressed public meetings in Ramgarh and Tijara constituencies during Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra in Alwar. “The government giving smart phones to one crore women in the state under Bhamashah digital scheme has triggered anxiety among the Congress leaders,” Raje said.

The CM said that the government wanted to empower women and smart phones will help them get information about the government schemes. I want women to stay connected with the happenings around the globe, something that the Opposition is against of, Raje said. She added that the women folk are free to take phone of any company.

It is probably for the first time that chief minister Raje has retaliated on scathing remarks made by Congress opposing the scheme ever since it was launched by her on September 4. Heightening the attack she said that the Congress has been saying that they will tear down the Bhamashah Card, but there dream will remain unfulfilled as neither the Congress will come to power nor the scheme will be discontinued.

The Opposition had only four days back taken up the issue of the digital scheme with the full bench of election commission when it was on a two-day visit to Jaipur.

Ramgarh is the same place that was in July rocked by the incident of lynching and the matter even took a political turn. Raje in all her sabhas mentioned that Bhamashah Scheme had proven to be effective in stopping corruption.

Raje also attacked former chief minister Ashok Gehlot while speaking in Tijara. She said that Gehlot never spoke a word for farmers, women and other sections of the society in assembly and now at a time when elections are approaching he has become vocal.

Like at other places wherever the yatra had gone, here too Raje spoke about various schemes of the state government and informed the people about how Rajshri scheme among other such schemes is supporting the cause of girl child.

Lynching In Ramgarh

A man was allegedly lynched in Ramgarh by a group of people on July 21 who accused him of smuggling cows. Akbar Khan, 28, and his friend Aslam were taking two cows to their village in Haryana through a forested area near Lalawandi village of Ramgarh district when five men attacked them. They suspected that Khan was smuggling cows and the police arrested two men. Khan narrated the incident to policemen who arrived at the spot and died on the way to a government hospital in Ramgarh. 

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