New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): Congress has launched its manifesto for the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, providing 5 main ensures for the city-state’s residents.
The manifesto guarantees Rs2,500 per 30 days to at least one lady in each poor family, citing profitable implementation in Karnataka.
The manifesto additionally pledges free well being protection as much as Rs25 lakh for all Delhi residents, a coverage launched in Rajasthan.
The occasion additional introduced a one-year apprenticeship programme with a stipend of Rs8,500 per 30 days for unemployed youth, 300 items of free electrical energy for qualifying households, and cooking gasoline at Rs500 per cylinder together with a free ration equipment.
Additionally, the manifesto contains commitments to revive 15,000 Civil Defence Volunteers, reserve 33 per cent of state authorities jobs for girls, and supply Rs5,000 per 30 days pension to senior residents, widows, and individuals with disabilities.
The Congress has additionally promised to revive governance initiatives from Sheila Dikshit’s period and strengthen social welfare schemes. The occasion mentioned that these measures goal to deal with inflation and unemployment whereas offering direct monetary aid to Delhi’s underprivileged.
Following the discharge, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh addressed the media, emphasising the occasion’s deal with public rights and air pollution.
“A guarantee means that it is the right of the public. Congress has given five main guarantees for the Delhi elections,” Ramesh mentioned, underlining the occasion’s dedication to those guarantees.
Ramesh spoke in regards to the essential concern of air pollution in Delhi, suggesting that the main focus ought to be on the standard of life for residents. “I will definitely say that in Delhi, the ease of doing business is not important, but the ease of breathing is important,” he said.
He additional criticised the present authorities for failing to deal with air pollution adequately: “In our country, there is no competition for pollution. Neither BJP nor AAP government in Delhi have taken this issue seriously.”He went on to check the present AAP authorities with Sheila Dikshit’s regime: “I still remember when Sheila Dikshit was the CM, she took the help of the Japanese Government for the Yamuna Action Plan.”The Delhi Assembly elections will happen in a single section on February 5. The counting of votes will likely be on February 8. A complete of 699 candidates are competing for 70 Assembly seats in Delhi. (ANI)