A day after the Congress came up with its list of promises for civic polls, the Delhi BJP too released its manifesto on Sunday, repeating 45 promises of the last polls and adding 13 new ones to the list.
The party proposes social security cards for the under-privileged like workers in the unorganised sector to help them avail insurance and healthcare facilities, and to promote girl child education it promises to deposit `5,000 in bank account of all girl students in Class 5. The party also proposes an ambitious master plan for drainage.
The common election manifesto for the three bodies assures that the party, if voted back to power, will regularise unauthorised colonies and make them habitable with proper drainage, roads and lanes, and parks and schools.
Assuring a more transparent and accountable system, the BJP also assures simplification of the process of getting building plans approved by ending “inspector raj and corruption” and introducing an online system.
To woo voters hailing from Puvanchal (eastern UP and Bihar), the party promises to declare a holiday on Chhath Puja besides providing washrooms and changing rooms at the puja sites.
For senior citizens, widows and disabled, the BJP proposes to hike the monthly pension from `1,000 to `1,500 and increasing the number of beneficiaries from two lakh to three lakhs. In a sop to the elderly in the city, the party promises recreation areas for them in every ward.
Releasing the party manifesto, BJP national vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu said that the Congress suffers from credibility crisis as the party did not keep its promise on the issues of regularisation of unauthorised colonies and flats for slum dwellers.
“They have not kept their promises. Congress does not have the moral right to seek votes. They are destroying the country. We would not allow that. See the performance of BJP in the MCD for the past five years and vote for us,” Mr Naidu said.
“We plan to manufacture tiles and organic manure from garbage. Delhi will be made a sanitation-free land,” said Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta.
Meanwhile, the Congress leadership termed the BJP manifesto as a bunch of lies.
“They (BJP) can't count on a single achievement during their tenure of five years. What they have been telling (in the manifesto) is nothing but all lies,” DPCC chief Jai Prakash Agarwal told reporters here.