In its manifesto, BJP also promised it would set up Atal Canteens in JJ clusters, provide free education from KG to PG for underprivileged students, if voted to power in Delhi.
Unveiling concluding part of party manifesto, Amit Shah assured 50,000 govt jobs, health insurance & accident cover for gig workers, a clean Yamuna in three years.
BJP has also promised, in 1st of its manifesto, to set up Atal Canteen Yojana under which those living in slum clusters will get a meal for Rs 5, if voted to power in Delhi.
Monthly allowance for women, housing for the poor, subsidised gas cylinders, increased pensions, and 2 lakh govt jobs feature in both the Congress and BJP manifestos.
Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.
Quote attributed to Deepak Parekh in the screenshot now going viral summarises a piece he wrote for Times of India in 2014, in which he called the manifesto 'extremely detailed document'.
Promises tend to become irrelevant if care is not taken to create necessary enabling conditions to make them feasible. This is even truer of electoral promises.
The manifesto’s silence on legal reforms in the digital space is concerning. The outdated Information Technology Act, about two decades old now, remains India’s nodal tech law.
If India still must guarantee food rations to millions of its citizens, then the besieged liberals and povertarians may after all, have a case. BJP’s manifesto is a reality check on the very passions it unleashed in 2014.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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