CHANDIGARH: Jawan and kisan headlined BJP’s manifesto for the Oct 5 Haryana polls that party president J P Nadda unveiled in Rohtak Thursday, containing a job guarantee to Agniveers at the end of their contracted four-year military service and MSP for 24 crops, reported.
The manifesto also promises a more-than-double hike in compensation for crop failure from Rs 6,000 to Rs 15,000 an acre.Nadda contrasted it with Congress’s alleged negligence of farmers and failure to ensure MSP for more than eight crops. Cong’s guarantees include a legal guarantee for MSP. Lado Luxmi Yojana, under which every woman can claim a monthly stipend of Rs 2,100, aims to go one-up on a similar commitment in Cong manifesto with an extra Rs 100.
Scooty for rural college girls, LPG sop but no OPS in BJP’s Haryana manifesto
Another similarity with Congress’s guarantees is subsidised cooking gas at Rs 500 a cylinder. BJP has also promised a scooty each to rural girls going to college under its Avval Balika Yojna (scheme for meritorious girls). For the backward classes, the saffron party has lined up guaranteed entrepreneurship loans of Rs 25 lakh each and welfare boards for different categories. Full scholarships will be offered to OBC and SC students on admission to engineering or medical colleges.
While Congress’s manifesto assures citizens of free medical treatment worth up to Rs 25 lakh, BJP’s commitment is limited to Rs 10 lakh, with a provision for an additional Rs 5 lakh for those above 70 years.
BJP’s manifesto countered Congress’s social-security pension of Rs 6,000 a month under different categories with a commitment to pay pension proportionate to the increase in dearness allowance for govt employees and pensioners. Like Congress, the saffron party promises two lakh govt jobs without any “parchi-kharchi” (favouritism or bribe). The manifesto doesn’t mention the old pension scheme, which Congress wants to revive. Nadda pointed out that Haryana’s per capita income had more than doubled since 2014, from Rs 1.37 lakh to Rs 3 lakh in 2023. The state’s exports, too, soared from Rs 68,000 crore to Rs 2.5 lakh crore during the same period, he said.
The BJP chief highlighted electrification of 5,800-odd villages as another achievement, pointing out that the list comprised 538 villages a decade ago. Ex-CM and leader of the opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda accused BJP of plagiarising Congress’s manifesto.
The manifesto also promises a more-than-double hike in compensation for crop failure from Rs 6,000 to Rs 15,000 an acre.Nadda contrasted it with Congress’s alleged negligence of farmers and failure to ensure MSP for more than eight crops. Cong’s guarantees include a legal guarantee for MSP. Lado Luxmi Yojana, under which every woman can claim a monthly stipend of Rs 2,100, aims to go one-up on a similar commitment in Cong manifesto with an extra Rs 100.
Scooty for rural college girls, LPG sop but no OPS in BJP’s Haryana manifesto
Another similarity with Congress’s guarantees is subsidised cooking gas at Rs 500 a cylinder. BJP has also promised a scooty each to rural girls going to college under its Avval Balika Yojna (scheme for meritorious girls). For the backward classes, the saffron party has lined up guaranteed entrepreneurship loans of Rs 25 lakh each and welfare boards for different categories. Full scholarships will be offered to OBC and SC students on admission to engineering or medical colleges.
While Congress’s manifesto assures citizens of free medical treatment worth up to Rs 25 lakh, BJP’s commitment is limited to Rs 10 lakh, with a provision for an additional Rs 5 lakh for those above 70 years.
BJP’s manifesto countered Congress’s social-security pension of Rs 6,000 a month under different categories with a commitment to pay pension proportionate to the increase in dearness allowance for govt employees and pensioners. Like Congress, the saffron party promises two lakh govt jobs without any “parchi-kharchi” (favouritism or bribe). The manifesto doesn’t mention the old pension scheme, which Congress wants to revive. Nadda pointed out that Haryana’s per capita income had more than doubled since 2014, from Rs 1.37 lakh to Rs 3 lakh in 2023. The state’s exports, too, soared from Rs 68,000 crore to Rs 2.5 lakh crore during the same period, he said.
The BJP chief highlighted electrification of 5,800-odd villages as another achievement, pointing out that the list comprised 538 villages a decade ago. Ex-CM and leader of the opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda accused BJP of plagiarising Congress’s manifesto.