BJP is contesting Maharashtra Assembly polls in alliance with Shiv Sena and RPI while Congress is in alliance with Sharad Pawar-led-NCP.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) working President JP Nadda and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday released the manifesto for the upcoming assembly election to the state of Maharashtra. The leaders released the manifesto, or the 'Sankalp Patra' in Mumbai this morning at the Rangasharda Auditorium in Mumbai's Bandra-West.
Releasing the manifesto, Nadda said that it has been drafted keeping in focus the man standing at the last pedestal of the society. "We are committed to bringing the poor, villages, farmers, tribals and other backward classes into the mainstream," he said at the launch.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who was in attendance, took to Twitter to post a video of him speaking at the release event of the 'Sankalp Patra'.
The primary points of the 44-page manifesto are:
• Demanding that India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, be awarded to Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, Savitribai Phule, and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
• Promising sanitary napkins for women at a cheap rate of Rs 1/- per napkin
• Government hospitals to have increased and better Ayurvedic treatment facilities
• Every district to have one Yoga centre
• Every district to also have one Vigyan Kendra for nurturing scientific temperament
• The promise to make Maharashtra a trillion-dollar economy, aiming to make it the first state to achieve such
• Ambedkar Memorial to be completed by 2020
• As much as Rs 5 lakh crore to be invested in infrastructure
• All the village panchayat to be connected via broadband internet
• All martyr's family (army, paramilitary and police) to be rehabilitated
• By 2022, every home in Maharashtra will have pure drinking water
• Promise to generate one crore employment opportunities in the next five years
• Maharashtra to be made drought-free in the next five years
• Maharashtra farmers to be given 12 hours of electricity daily
The manifesto has tall promises such as pledges to provide one crore employment in the next five years and making Maharashtra a trillion-dollar economy. It also promised to invest five crores in the infrastructure, providing 12 hours of electricity daily to farmers in the state and making Maharashtra drought-free in the next five years. It also stated that till 2022, all houses in the state will start getting pure drinking water.
BJP is contesting Maharashtra Assembly polls in alliance with Shiv Sena and RPI while Congress is in alliance with Sharad Pawar-led-NCP.
BJP ally Shiv Sena also released its manifesto for the Maharashtra Assembly elections three days ago, i.e. on October 12 (Saturday) with a plethora of promises to woo voters including establishing a chain of 1000 'Bhojnalaya' (eateries) across the state that would serve quality and nutritious food at a meagre cost of Rs 10.
The other major poll promises of the BJP ally are reduction in domestic electricity rates by 30 percent for up to 300 unit consumption, special bus services in villages, Rs 10,000 per year as financial aid to the needy farmers, farm loan waiver, fixing price of fertilizers, making individual farmers beneficiaries of crop insurance scheme.
The Congress-NCP alliance on October 7 released their manifesto promising reduced penalty under Motor Vehicles Act (MVA), immediate farm loan waiver, and zero-interest loan for higher education among others. Their manifesto also talks of action to deal with climate change. The other important promises include a 100 per cent subsidy for drip irrigation, minimum support price (MSP) for dairy farm products based on the production cost to increase farmers' income. The two parties, which have joined hands to take on the might of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, have also promised to enact laws to reserve 80 per cent jobs for locals in new industries. They have also decided to give a free laptop to 10 lakh girls who clear SSC examination.
The elections for 288 member assembly will be held on October 21 while the counting will be taken up on the 24th of the month.
(With agency inputs)
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