It’s raining ballot guarantees in Maharashtra, with round two weeks to go earlier than the meeting election. The ruling alliance Mahayuti and the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, have each launched their manifestos which make tall guarantees, particularly to the ladies, farmers and the younger folks of the state.
Given the do-or-die nature of the approaching battle, events like Shiv Sena of Uddhav Thackeray or Sharad Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Occasion, launched particular person manifestos and made election bulletins for each seat.
Whereas the ruling alliance is wooing voters with its 10 ensures, the opposition has gone to the folks with a “Panchsutra” (Letter of 5 guarantees) in its joint manifesto.
The Mahayuti’s 10 ensures embody:
- . Rising the quantity of Ladli Behan Yojana from Rs 1,500 to 2,100 and a promise to deploy 25,000 girls within the police pressure.
- . Farmers assured mortgage waiver and beneath the Kisan Samman Yojana, the quantity to extend from Rs 12,000 to Rs 15,000 per yr
- . A 20% subsidy on MSP
- . Previous-age pension improve from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,100 per 30 days
- . Stability in costs of important commodities
- . 25 lakh jobs and schooling allowance of Rs 10,000 per 30 days promised, coaching for 10 lakh college students
- . Anganwadi and Asha employees promised a wage of Rs 15,000 and insurance coverage safety
- . 45,000 connecting roads in rural areas
- . 30 per cent discount in electrical energy invoice
- Imaginative and prescient Maharashtra 2029 to be accomplished inside 100 days
“Opposition events had been making enjoyable of Ladli Behan Yojana. What is going to Rs. 1500 do?” stated Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. “I promise that the scheme won’t ever be stopped. Many extra vital choices will probably be taken as quickly as the federal government is shaped,” he added.
Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, in the meantime, held a “Swabhiman Sabha” in Mumbai and launched the 5 guarantees of the Maha Vikas Aghadi.
The “Panch Sutra” promise of Mahavikas Aghadi contains:
- Below the Mahalaxmi Yojana, girls will get Rs. 3,000 per 30 days and free bus journey
- Farmers will get loans as much as Rs. 3 lakh, and an incentive of Rs 50,000 for repaying the mortgage on time.
- Caste-based census will probably be carried out, wherein an try will probably be made to take away the 50% reservation restrict.
- Medical health insurance as much as Rs 25 lakh and free medicines
- Monetary help of as much as Rs 4,000 per 30 days for unemployed younger folks.
Within the Lok Sabha elections, the “Structure in peril” narrative had given an enormous benefit to the Maha Vikas Aghadi. This time too, Rahul Gandhi was seen waving the Pink E-book of the Structure in Nagpur and Mumbai.
He was joined by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar.
The BJP, nevertheless, claimed the Pink E-book Mr Gandhi had introduced was utterly clean, and referred to as it an insult to Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s Structure.