Haryana: In elections, only issues like road, electricity and water are discussed, but in Haryana brides are being discussed. This discussion is being discussed by none other than the bachelor of Haryana. Bachelors Union, an organization of these bachelors, has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In this letter, he has demanded from the state government to encourage bachelors in return for support in the Lok Sabha elections. Apart from this, due to lack of support from the society, the union has demanded fixing of quota in jobs and Panchayat Raj elections to ensure equal opportunities.
In the letter written to the PM, the union has written that due to being single, we do not get the place in the society that we deserve. For this reason we suffer constant mental torture. Therefore our demands should be seriously considered.
‘Get your daughter-in-law-vote’ has started in 2014 elections.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Haryana, the ‘Bahu Dilawo-Vote’ campaign was started by bachelors. Under this campaign, the bachelors had demanded that if we get a bride then we will vote for the leaders.
Former Agriculture Minister, former State President of Haryana BJP to capitalize on these feelings of bachelors.
To capitalize on these sentiments of bachelors, former Agriculture Minister and former state president of Haryana BJP Om Prakash Dhankhar had promised to arrange brides from other states for the bachelors if they voted for BJP. However, that promise was not fulfilled by the former Agriculture Minister after the elections.
The number is around 5 lakhs. Haryana government has given assurance of family ID, but the reality is that single unmarried youth have to struggle a lot to make documents for it.
He put forth the demand that our primary demand is to get family ID for single men, but the government did not pay any attention to our demand.
There are more than 1 lakh daughters-in-law from other states in Haryana
In 2020, it was revealed that there are one lakh 35 thousand girls in Haryana, who are now aged, who were bought from West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Some girls were bought directly while some reached Haryana via Delhi. Only a few such cases have been registered in police records in the last three years but this trend is still continuing.
Government has started bachelor pension. Shortage of brides is a big problem in Haryana, in view of this, the government of former CM Manohar Lal Khattar has also started bachelor pension. Under this pension, a monthly pension has been ensured to unmarried men and women aged 45 to 60 years. to give pension to bachelors.
To capitalize on these sentiments of bachelors, former Agriculture Minister and former state president of Haryana BJP Om Prakash Dhankhar had promised to arrange brides from other states for the bachelors if they voted for BJP. However, that promise was not fulfilled by the former Agriculture Minister after the elections.
Claim of 5 lakh bachelors in the state 18 lakh elderly people in Haryana are taking pension. More than 8 lakh women are taking widow pension.
Two lakh disabled people are getting pension benefits Virendra Sangwan, who is leading Bachelors Union in Haryana, said that according to the government data, the number of bachelors in Haryana is 13 thousand, but this is not the actual data. He claimed that the number of unmarried men in Haryana is around 5 lakhs.
Under this pension, a monthly pension has been ensured to unmarried men and women aged 45 to 60 years. Haryana has become the first state in the country to provide pension to bachelors.
Under the pension scheme, men and women aged 45 to 60 years will be given a monthly pension of Rs 2750 by the government, after which it will be converted into old age pension. This pension scheme was started by former CM Manohar Lal Khattar in 2023, but it has not been started yet.