Hyderabad: Free laptops to toppers of professional courses, entrance tests, fillip to solar energy and night courts followed by 24x7 courts, are among the several promises and freebies offered by the Telangana BJP in its poll manifesto that was released here on Friday.
Under its “Pratibha Kamalam Pathakam”, the BJP has promised laptops to 25,000 top rankers in Engineering common entrance tests, 500 in medicine and 500 in the MBA CET examination to attract youth.
The party has also offered Rs 1 lakh cash award to 2,000 girl toppers in Eamcet and 100 girl students in MBACET to encourage them to study. The BJP manifesto has a touch of the “proven Gujarat model”, “effective Chhattisgarh” and “Madhya Pradesh progress” incorporated with local needs with special focus on welfare, power generation, English education, quality medicare, development, industrialisation, transparency, good governance and security to people.
The party also promised 85 per cent subsidy to solar powered agricultural pumpsets, establishment of 2 MW solar power generators in 450 mandals to generate 900 MW of solar power and establishment of government-run liquor shops along the lines of New Delhi, among others if the party is voted to power in Telangana.
Former Sikkim governor and senior BJP leader, Mr V. Rama Rao released the manifesto while Telangana BJP president, Mr G. Kishan Reddy explained its salient features.
“BJP played a key role in achieving Telangana. Development of backward Telangana is our top priority. To Modi’s 5 ‘T’s to further India’s brand, Tradition, Technology, Tourism, Trade and Talent. We added two more ‘T’s, Transparency and Telangana development with focus on brand image of Telangana and Hyderabad,” Mr Kishan Reddy explained.
BJP has also promised to rename Adilabad district after Gond tribal revolutionary Komaram Bheem, establish a Martyrs’ memorial at Warangal inscribed with names of all those who died for Telangana and in the Telangana armed struggle, Rs 10 lakh or three acres of land or 200-sq. yard housing plot in Hyderabad and pension for the kin of T-martyrs, government jobs to the eligible and inclusion of farmers in the national pension scheme.
The Telangana BJP also included some of the common promises seen in other parties’ manifesto including nine-hour free power to the agriculture sector, Gujarat type 24-hour power supply, special corpus fund for farmers, three acres of land to the landless poor, waiver of farm loans up to Rs One lakh, pension to 60 plus farmers, mid-day meal scheme for the aged, infirm and handicapped in all villages, houses for poor, national project status for Pranahita Chevella etc.
While focusing on location-specific development in every district including Hyderabad, BJP has promised to establish two new mini airports, at Adilabad and Khammam, besides giving state festival status to Bathukamma, Bonalu and Sammakka Sarakka.
