BJP manifesto for KMC polls stress on health, education, women safety

Kolkata | Wednesday | 8th December, 2021

Summary:

Kolkata, Dec 8 (PTI) The West Bengal BJP on Wednesday released its manifesto for the December 19 Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election which stressed on corruption free civic services, health, education and safety of women and children.

The manifesto stressed on "6 S model" - Swastha (healthy) Kolkata, Swachh (clean) Kolkata, Sikshit (educated) Kolkata, Surakshit (safe) Kolkata, Sanskritik (cultural) Kolkata, and Sobar (everyone"s) Kolkata.

The manifesto was released by the Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, BJP chief spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya, BJP state vice-president Pratap Banerjee, besides Dinesh Trivedi among others.

"We wanted both KMC and the pending elections to the 112 municipalities in the state to be held at the same time.

But the West Bengal government had other plans.

We also wanted deployment of central forces for the civic polls but the state election commission did not accept it.