The Congress party on Wednesday announced a medical treatment scheme ahead of assembly elections in Delhi. The grand old party has promised free medical treatment up to Rs 25 lakh under the Jeevan Raksha Yojana for the people of Delhi if elected to power in the upcoming elections. 


Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gahlot and Delhi Congress chief Qazi Nizamuddin announced the scheme on Wednesday.


Earlier, the party announced the Pyari Didi Yojana under which it has promised financial assistance of Rs 2,500 per month to the women in the national capital. 


The scheme would be rolled out on the lines of the model adopted by the Congress government in Karnataka, it said. 






All three mainstream parties are pivoting the polls on welfare schemes. 


Congress' poll promise for women comes after Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal announced in December last year the the launch of the 'Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojna' to give a monthly assistance of Rs 1,000 to women in Delhi, and promised the amount would be raised to Rs 2,100 after the elections.


On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured that no welfare scheme would be discontinued if the Bharatiya Janata Party formed a government and made a strong appeal to them to get rid of the Kejriwal-led party. 


Launching the Pyari Didi Yojana, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said the scheme will be implemented "on the first day of the new Cabinet".


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"Whatever and wherever Congress has promised at the nation or state level, we have delivered and we are going to deliver," he said.


Within three months after coming to power, all the guarantees were implemented in Karnataka.


Women in the entire state travel free in buses, 10 kg of rice is being given to every household, about Rs 3,000 is given to the unemployed youth, 200 units of electricity, and Rs 2,000 is being to every woman. Additionally, 1.22 crore women are getting Rs 2,000 every month, he said.


The elections to the 70-member Delhi Legislative Assembly will be held in a single phase on February 5 and the votes will be counted on February 8.