The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) on Sunday launched its manifesto for the Maharashtra meeting elections, promising a state anti-conversion legislation, farm mortgage waivers, a rise in money handouts for girls to ₹2,100, and a month-to-month ₹10,000 stipend for 1,000,000 younger individuals, whereas additionally clarifying that the Mahayuti alliance it leads was but to determine on a chief ministerial candidate.
Union residence minister Amit Shah launched the 25-point imaginative and prescient doc throughout an occasion in Mumbai, accompanied by Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union minister Piyush Goyal and state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule.Among the many guarantees have been additionally 2.5 million new jobs and a programme to produce kitchen necessities spices and oil to low-income households.
“The BJP’s resolutions are etched in stone. Whether or not it’s the Centre or the state, when our authorities is fashioned, we fulfil our resolutions,” stated Shah.
Throughout the occasion, Shah additionally tore into the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), accusing it of attempting to slash reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and different backward courses and “giving them to Muslims”.
It stated a “talent census shall be performed in Maharashtra to analyse the talent gaps primarily based on business wants.”
“It will allow the availability of expert manpower and facilitate the planning for the provision of a brand new expert workforce as required,” stated the doc.
The celebration’s Sankalp Patra additionally promised an anti-conversion legislation, which it has both promised or carried out in a number of states that it’s in energy.
“A strict legislation shall be enacted towards compelled and fraudulent conversions, making certain safety from coercive and misleading spiritual conversions,” it stated.
The manifesto additionally promised to hike advantages for farmers below the state’s Kisan Samman Yojana from ₹12,000 to ₹15,000, in addition to a “value help scheme in alignment with the MSP to cowl value variations of as much as 20%.”
It additionally proposed to introduce the Akshay Anna Yojana – a programme that can give low-income group households a spread of kitchen rations, together with rice, jowar, groundnut oil, salt, sugar, turmeric, mustard, cumin, and pink chilli powder each month.
It promised to make Maharashtra drought-free over the following 5 years. Water flowing within the western rivers shall be redirected to the drought-prone areas of Marathwada and North Maharashtra by way of the Godavari basin, it stated.
“Via this manifesto, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visions are being dropped at Maharashtra,” Fadnavis stated in the course of the launch.
Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra meeting shall be held in a single part on November 20. The outcomes shall be declared on November 23.
“The Mahayuti authorities has talked about and executed work for respect for farmers, serving to the poor, and on upholding the self-respect of ladies. The ‘Sankalp Patra’ launched right here in the present day is a mirrored image of the aspirations of the individuals of Maharashtra,” Shah stated.
Hitting out on the MVA, Shah stated, “On the opposite facet there’s Aghadi. Even the Congress leaders should say that they need to make guarantees after considering so much, as a result of they promise after which reply later.”
“There may be Himachal, Telangana, Karnataka – in all of those states they haven’t fulfilled their guarantees there,” he stated.
Shah was referring to a current controversy over the Karnataka authorities’s Shakti scheme — considered one of 5 assure programmes rolled out by the Congress after it got here to energy in 2023.
He, nevertheless, underscored that the Mahayuti alliance, which additionally contains the Nationalist Congress Celebration and Shiv Sena, was but to determine on a candidate for chief minister if it have been to retain energy within the state.
“After the ballot, our three events will sit collectively and determine the following chief minister,” he stated.
He additionally accused the Congress of appeasing Muslims and being towards SCs, STs and OBCs.
“Not too long ago I noticed studies and paperwork which stated {that a} delegation of Muslim clerics had submitted a letter itemizing a number of calls for of the group,” he stated.
“One of many calls for was to approve reservations for Muslims. State Congress chief Nana Patole has agreed to those calls for. There isn’t a provision for reservation primarily based on faith within the Structure. The Congress intends to chop the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs and provides it to Muslims. Is that this acceptable to the individuals of Maharashtra?” he stated.
Chatting with reporters in Mumbai, Patole rejected Shah’s allegation.
“We (MVA) are preventing the election on core points and won’t be drawn into the Hindu-Muslim faux narrative,” Patole stated.
He additionally attacked Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray. “Thackeray is sitting with the individuals who insult Veer Savarkar, opposed the cancellation of Article 370, the development of the Ram temple at Ayodhya and the modification within the Waqf Board legislation,” he stated.
Shah insisted that the NCP and the Shiv Sena had break up as a result of inside succession battles.
“If Sharad Pawar had chosen Ajit Pawar as his successor as a substitute of Supriya Sule, the NCP wouldn’t have break up. Equally, if Uddhav Thackeray had not chosen Aditya Thackeray over Eknath Shinde, the Shiv Sena wouldn’t have break up,” he stated.
Fadnavis introduced that the federal government would, inside 100 days of its formation, current a “Imaginative and prescient Maharashtra 2029”.
Reacting to Shah’s allegations, Sule identified that it was not she however Ajit Pawar who had held all of the positions of energy within the undivided NCP, together with the put up of deputy CM.
“I used to be solely an MP,” she stated.
