‘ Jan Dhan won’t serve purpose’
BSP president Mayawati said on Saturday that the newly- launched Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana will not serve much purpose and merely opening bank accounts for the poor will not change their future.
“It will not be very easy for the poor to claim the ` one lakh insurance money either as we all know how the system works. There is a need to give direct monetary benefits to the poor and downtrodden and not merely open bank accounts for them,” she said while talking to reporters here before being unanimously re- elected the party’s pres- ident for the third consecutive term. She said that as UP CM, she had provided benefits to the poor through the Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Arthik Madad Yojana.
She said that schemes launched by different governments at the Centre since independence for the benefit of SC/ STs, OBCs, religious minorities, specially Muslims for their monetary uplift and making them self- reliant, have “either been stopped or put in the cold storage”.
“In any case they did not yield the desired results or else the status of the poor would have changed by now,” she added. Ms Mayawati stated that she and her party were keep- ing a sharp eye on the Central government regarding their welfare schemes.
Asked to comment on the recent controversy involving Union home minister Rajnath Singh’s son, Ms Mayawati said: “You can imagine what is going to be the future of the BJP.”
She also lashed out at the Akhilesh Yadav government and said that the UP CM had mastered the art of taking hasty decision and then forgetting to implement them “Whether it is on the law and order front or any other issue, the chief minister makes announces but never follows up with the implementation work,’ she added.