The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to announce on March 8 the details regarding the implementation of the Mahila Samriddhi Yojna — one of the key promises it made in the run up to the Delhi assembly elections, party leaders said on Sunday.

“The work on formulating the categories for the scheme of providing ₹2,500 will start on March 8… The registration will start from March 8 and it will take around one month after which money will start being credited in people’s accounts,” BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said.

The development comes amid continuing criticism by the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the delay in the approval and implementation of the scheme. Ahead of the February 5 Delhi elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other BJP leaders had promised that the scheme will be passed in the first meeting of the Delhi cabinet, and the money will be credited in the beneficiaries’ accounts by March 8 on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

On Sunday, AAP leaders said that the BJP failed to fulfil both its promises.

PM Modi at an election rally in RK Puram on February 2 said: “BJP government will be formed in Delhi on February 8, and by March 8, which is International Women’s Day, ₹2,500 monthly allowances will start reaching the accounts of sisters of Delhi…and this is Modi’s guarantee.”