India, March 9 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress have accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of delaying the delivery on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of providing Rs.2,500 in financial assistance to women in Delhi. On International Women's Day, AAP leader and Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Atishi, criticized the BJP, calling the scheme a "jumla" (hollow promise), while BJP leaders defended the initiative and countered AAP's own financial commitments to women.

Atishi alleged that instead of fulfilling its promise, the BJP has only set up a four-member committee that drafted the scheme. "Before the Delhi elections, PM Narendra Modi made a grand promise to the women of Delhi. He assured them that on March 8,...