Last month, when Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced subsidised LPG cylinders as a “rakhi gift” for women, he wasn’t the only leader seen as having announced a scheme with an eye on voters in a poll-bound state.
Promises of welfare schemes and “freebies” are reaching a crescendo as five states near assembly polls. Be it by BJP leaders – despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public disapproval of “revdi culture” – or by the Congress.
