Launched in February after the BJP’s defeat in three states in the Hindi heartland, the Prime Minister’s ambitious scheme for farmers may help the party in its fight against the SP-BSP gathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh.
Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Phulpur: Last month, Raj Narayan Rajbhar, a resident of Saimalpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency, had Rs 2,000 credited to his bank account under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). “My relative has received the second instalment as well,” he says. “I think the scheme will continue if the Narendra Modi government comes to power again,” he adds. Ghazipur votes on May 19.
Launched in February after the BJP’s defeat in three states in the Hindi heartland, the Prime Minister’s ambitious scheme for farmers may help the party in its fight against the SP-BSP gathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. In several districts in eastern UP which The Indian Express visited, and which go to polls in the last two phases, farmers who had received the first and second instalments of the PM-KISAN scheme favoured the BJP over other parties.
According to a March 7 statement by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, the first instalment of the PM-KISAN scheme (Rs 2, 000) was released for about 1.01 crore farmers across the country, amounting to a total fund release of Rs 2,021 crore. In UP, 74 lakh farmers received the first instalment.
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