"Will make my sisters millionaires ": Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan makes big poll promise to women voters

Sidhi (Madhya Pradesh) [India], November 5 (ANI): Reaching out to women voters in the state ahead of the Madhya Assembly elections, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said his party would make them "millionaires" if voted back.
Addressing a public rally at Siddhi in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, the BJP leader said, "I will make my sisters millionaires. Our government has been providing money to every woman on a monthly basis and the amount will be raised even more if you vote us back. This is not a joke. This is my commitment to my sisters, it is my vision."
While the BJP has not named a CM face for the Assembly polls, Chouhan listed out promises he would strive to keep if voted back.
Hitting out at the Congress, the CM said, "They (Congress) only exploited you during their rule. We will empower our brothers and sisters as part of our commitment to eradicate poverty. I will do this," he added.
Under Madhya Pradesh's government's Ladli Behna Yojna, Rs 1,000 is provided to every woman in the state with the purpose of empowering them economically, according to an official statement.
Madhya Pradesh will poll for its 230-member Assembly in a single phase on November 17 and the votes will be counted on December 3.
The BJP recently announced its sixth list for the upcoming state elections, fielding Panna Lal Shakya from the Guna constituency and Mukesh Tandon from Vidisha.
The ruling party has declared its candidates for all 230 Assembly seats in the state.
Earlier, in October, the party released its fifth list of 92 candidates for the Assembly polls.
Prominent names in the list included sitting ministers Usha Thakur, Mahendra Singh Sisodiya and Mousam Bisen, who is the daughter of minister Gaurishankar Bisen.
Former ministers Jayant Kumar Malaiya, and Antar Singh Arya have also been given tickets.
Siddharth Tiwari and Sachin Birla, who recently joined the BJP after resigning from Congress, also made it to the list of candidates.
Party leaders Yoshodhara Raje Scindia, Gauri Shankar Bisen and OPS Bhadoria, a Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalist, are not among the party candidates.
Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Singh Patel have also been fielded from the Dimani and Narsinghpur constituencies respectively.
Union Minister Faggan Singh Kulaste will contest from the Niwas seat.
BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and BJP MP Rakesh Singh have also been fielded from Indore-1 and Jabalpur Paschim constituencies.
BJP's fourth list of 57 candidates included names of 23 state cabinet ministers and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Among prominent names on the list were Narottam Mishra, Pradhuman Singh Tomar, Bhupendra Singh, Govind Singh Rajput, Gopal Bhargava, Rajendra Shukla, Prabhuram Choudhary, Vishwas Sarang, Tulsi Ram Silavat, Mohan Yadav, Hardeep Singh Dang and Omprakash Sakhlecha. (ANI)