New Delhi: The Gujarat Congress has promised to analyze all corruption instances within the state within the final 27 years — together with from the time when Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state — if it involves energy within the state.
In its election manifesto launched Saturday, the Congress has promised to analyze corruption instances within the state beginning 1995 — the 12 months the BJP got here to energy in Gujarat.
Referred to as ‘Janta Ni Sarkar’ (folks’s authorities), the manifesto additionally makes a number of social welfare guarantees, comparable to free healthcare, reservation for ladies in jobs, and free electrical energy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister from 2001 to 2014.
Additionally among the many get together’s numerous guarantees is altering the identify of the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad to again to Sardar Patel Stadium. Earlier referred to as the Sardar Patel Stadium, the well-known cricketing venue was renamed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2021.
Releasing the manifesto, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Congress’s senior observer for the Gujarat elections, stated will probably be adopted as an official doc within the first cupboard assembly if the Congress is voted to energy within the state.
The imaginative and prescient doc centres round eight guarantees made by Rahul Gandhi to the folks of Gujarat, Gehlot stated.
Elections to Gujarat’s 182-member Meeting can be held in two phases on 1 and 5 December. Votes can be counted on 8 December.
In its public statements, the Congress has stated it was eyeing 125 seats in what is popping out to be a triangular contest between the ruling BJP, the Congress, and the Aam Aam Celebration.
Additionally Learn: ‘Dharmsatta’: In Gujarat, ‘encounter specialist’ ex-IPS’s new get together guarantees extra Hindutva than BJP
Healthcare, electrical energy, reservation for ladies in jobs
In a bid to cease the “senseless privatisation of healthcare”, the Congress has promised free healthcare as much as Rs 10 lakh and free medicines
It has additionally promised financial compensation of Rs 4 lakh every to the households of those that died within the Covid-19 pandemic.
Congress claims 3 lakh folks died in Gujarat due to the Covid pandemic — a declare that the BJP has thus far denied.
In its manifesto, the Congress has promised to create 10 lakh jobs within the state, out of which 50 per cent can be reserved for ladies.
Amongst its different guarantees are the waiver of farm loans as much as Rs 3 lakh and the provision of subsidised gasoline cylinders on the charge of Rs 500 a cylinder.
It has additionally two guarantees just like those it made in Himachal Pradesh — the opposite state that’s seeing meeting elections: reinstating the Previous Pension Scheme, which was discontinued on 1 April 2004, and free electrical energy for as much as 300 items.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
Additionally Learn: In 2017, Patidar stir price BJP in Saurashtra. Now, it hopes AAP will dent Congress vote there