AAP leaders throughout the launch of their celebration’s manifesto for the Delhi Meeting elections, on January 27, 2025, in Delhi.
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Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday introduced the celebration’s 15-point manifesto for the Delhi Meeting election, ‘Kejriwal ki assure’ (Kejriwal’s assure), with the promise on employment for youth getting essentially the most significance.
“The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Social gathering), Congress, and different events make guarantees throughout elections, however they’re simply hole slogans below completely different names. Once we began utilizing the time period ‘assure’, additionally they started utilizing it. However they’ve devalued the time period ‘assure’. Nonetheless, that is Kejriwal’s assure, not Modi’s. It is a agency assure, not a hole one like theirs. Right now, we’re asserting 15 ‘Kejriwal ki ensures’ which will likely be fulfilled within the subsequent 5 years,” Mr. Kejriwal mentioned at a press convention on the celebration’s headquarters in New Delhi.
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“As per Central authorities information, Delhi has the bottom unemployment. Nationwide stage unemployment is 6% however in Delhi, it’s 2%. We want that there isn’t a one who’s unemployed in Delhi. We’re planning to provide jobs to each youth in Delhi,” Mr. Kejriwal mentioned.
All 15 factors within the manifesto have been introduced by the celebration over the past one-and-a-half years within the run-up to the Meeting election, together with the ‘Mahila Samman Yojana’ and ‘Sanjeevani Yojana’. There aren’t any new guarantees.
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Different guarantees embrace the waiving off unsuitable water payments, extending advantages of free water and electrical energy to tenants, and ₹18,000 per thirty days to monks and granthis.
Within the run as much as the 2020 election, the AAP had introduced its manifesto with a 10-point ‘Kejriwal ki assure’. Earlier this month, Mr. Kejriwal had mentioned that he couldn’t fulfil three of these guarantees, however work had been performed on all three of them, which he reiterated on Monday.
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“The following three ensures, we had made in 2020 too. We had mentioned that we might give 24-hour water provide. We had mentioned that we might clear the Yamuna. We had mentioned that we might make roads in Delhi of European requirements. However we couldn’t fulfil these three guarantees. There was the COVID-19 pandemic for two-and-a-half years, after which we have been jailed in faux circumstances. Within the subsequent 5 years, we are going to fulfil these three guarantees. We have now funds and full plans for them,” the previous Delhi Chief Minister mentioned.
Nonetheless, different guarantees within the 2020 manifesto, together with discount in air air pollution; underground cables to carry electrical energy to each family; and pucca homes for slum dwellers, stay unfulfilled.
Mr. Kejriwal claimed that, in whole, households in Delhi have been presently saving ₹25,000 per thirty days due to the insurance policies of the AAP authorities. “Should you press the unsuitable button, if you happen to press the ‘lotus’ (the BJP’s election image) button, an extra ₹25,000 per thirty days will likely be added to every household’s bills,” he mentioned.
Hitting out on the AAP, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that the 15 ensures issued by Mr. Kejriwal on Monday within the title of a manifesto have been merely false guarantees that had neither been fulfilled throughout the decade-long rule of the celebration nor would they ever be. He additionally challenged Mr. Kejriwal to debate on any of the 15 “false ensures” with any spokesperson of the BJP.
Kejriwal’s 15 ensures
To supply employment for all youth in Delhi.
Mahila Samman Yojana to offer ₹2,100 per thirty days to ladies.
Sanjeevani Yojana for the free therapy of senior residents in non-public and authorities hospitals.
All unsuitable water payments to be waived off.
To supply 24-hour water provide.
To scrub the Yamuna river.
To make Delhi roads of European requirements.
Ambedkar Scholarship Yojana to satisfy the bills of Dalit college students getting admission in Universities overseas.
Free bus rides, 50% concession in Delhi metro for college kids.
₹18,000 per thirty days for monks and granthis.
The advantages of free water and electrical energy will likely be prolonged to tenants.
To repair sewers on a battle footing and alter previous sewer traces in a single to 1 and a half years.
Issuing of ration playing cards to be re-started.
Auto drivers to get ₹1 lakh for marriage of their daughters, free teaching for youngsters, ₹10 lakh free life insurance coverage and ₹5 lakh medical insurance.
Resident welfare associations will likely be given funds to rent non-public safety guards.
Printed – January 27, 2025 01:25 pm IST