Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge was in Mumbai for the launch of MVA’s Maharashtra manifesto
Mumbai:
The manifesto of the Maha Vikas Aghadi bloc of Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Ajit Pawar) for the November 20 polls in Maharashtra goals to beat the Eknath Shinde authorities’s Ladki Bahin yojana for girls and attain out to farmers and the youth.
The manifesto, which was launched right this moment, laid down the agenda for the primary 100 days if the Opposition bloc got here to energy. It guarantees an help of Rs 3,000 per thirty days to ladies underneath the Mahalaxmi Yojana. That is greater than the Rs 1,500 help to ladies underneath the Eknath Shinde authorities’s Ladki Bahin scheme, it is usually greater than the Rs 2,100 promised by the BJP in its ballot manifesto, additionally launched right this moment.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi has promised to supply free bus journey to ladies, six cylinders at Rs 500 rupee price, stronger legal guidelines to make sure ladies’s security, free cervical most cancers vaccine for women in 9-16 years age group and two days of interval go away each month.
To farmers, one other key group so far as elections are involved, the Maha Vikas Aghadi assured a high-level committee to cease farmer suicides and a greater scheme for households of farmers who died by suicide. The bloc has promised to make sure farmers get the appropriate value for his or her produce and mentioned it can merely the crop insurance coverage scheme.
Unemployed youth, the bloc mentioned, can be given a month-to-month pension of Rs 4,000 and state scholarship schemes can be expanded.
The MVA manifesto additionally promised to develop the state’s medical insurance coverage. Underneath social justice, it promised a Caste Census in Maharashtra.
On the launch of the doc, state Congress chief Nana Patole mentioned it isn’t a manifesto however a vachan nama. “BJP and the alliance have betrayed the state for the final 10 years. They’re speaking about waiving farmers’ loans, why did not they do it after they have been in energy?” he requested.
Addressing the occasion, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned the world seems to be at Mumbai and Maharashtra leads the nation in social change. “It is a crucial election, not only for turncoats, however one that may resolve the way forward for the nation. Solely MVA can promise a secure authorities,” he mentioned. Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut and NCP(SP)’s Supriya Sule was additionally current on the manifesto launch.
The turncoats jab was aimed on the Shiv Sena rebels whose mutiny cut up the celebration into two and introduced down the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities in 2022. Later, the Ajit Pawar camp’s rise up cut up Sharad Pawar’s NCP too. Within the 2019 election, the BJP and Shiv Sena have been in an alliance. Now, the Sena has cut up and so has the NCP. So, in some methods, that is additionally an election the place the rival factions will attempt to show they’re the ‘actual’ celebration.
Itemizing the guarantees in MVA’s manifesto, the Congress chief took a swipe on the BJP. “After we have been implementing it in Karnataka, they known as it revdi, however are actually selling the identical schemes.” On the caste Census, he mentioned it was not aimed toward dividing folks, however to entry information on their social place in order that efforts will be made to enhance it.