Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Congress manifesto a copy of BJP: Minister

  • | Friday | 30th November, 2018

JODHPUR/JAIPUR: Convener of the Rajasthan Assembly Election Management Committee and the Union cabinet minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has termed the election manifesto of Congress, released on Thursday, a copy of BJP’s manifesto.Meanwhile, Arun Chaturvedi, social justice and empowerment minister in the Raje government called the Congress manifesto a formality. Chaturvedi said, it seems the Congress had prepared the manifesto through an outside agency. While it tried to be populist, it lacks the will, sentiment of the people and knowledge of the state, he said in Jaipur.Shekhawat said that not only, it was copied from the BJP’s one but no wisdom was applied either while drafting this manifesto by the Congress.While talking to media persons on Thursday, Shekhawat said that most of the public welfare issues in Congress’s manifesto were those, which the BJP’s has already mentioned in its manifesto.“The Congress has released its manifesto four days after the BJP did so. But surprisingly, no mind was applied by the congress in drafting of its manifesto, which contained most of the issues, mentioned by the BJP in its manifesto”, alleged Shekhawat.He said that the Congress had done nothing but misled the people by producing a tampered version of the BJP’s manifesto on the almost same line.“If you see the manifesto of Congress, it has most of the issues, which already have been taken up by the BJP and either work had been completed on many of those issues or it was under process,” Shekhawat claimed.Sharing some data pertaining to crop insurance, Shekhawat said that 25.32 lakh farmers in Rajasthan were given a claim worth Rs 1,694 crore in 2016 alone and the claim worth more than Rs 4,000 crore has already been paid to the farmers of state in past two years.“The farmer of state was happy with this coverage and this procedure would be made more effective in the time to come, the process of which has already started,” Shekhawat claimed.He also referred to the claim of Congress to improve the MSP mechanism and asked what improvement them meant, when the credit guarantee worth Rs 45,000 crores have been provided to NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India) against a meagre Rs 2,950 crores during Congress’s rule.He asked that what kind of crop insurance and MSP, Congress wanted to introduce now, which could be better than those of BJP.

JODHPUR/JAIPUR: Convener of the Rajasthan Assembly Election Management Committee and the Union cabinet minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has termed the election manifesto of Congress, released on Thursday, a copy of BJP’s manifesto.Meanwhile, Arun Chaturvedi, social justice and empowerment minister in the Raje government called the Congress manifesto a formality. Chaturvedi said, it seems the Congress had prepared the manifesto through an outside agency. While it tried to be populist, it lacks the will, sentiment of the people and knowledge of the state, he said in Jaipur.Shekhawat said that not only, it was copied from the BJP’s one but no wisdom was applied either while drafting this manifesto by the Congress.While talking to media persons on Thursday, Shekhawat said that most of the public welfare issues in Congress’s manifesto were those, which the BJP’s has already mentioned in its manifesto.“The Congress has released its manifesto four days after the BJP did so. But surprisingly, no mind was applied by the congress in drafting of its manifesto, which contained most of the issues, mentioned by the BJP in its manifesto”, alleged Shekhawat.He said that the Congress had done nothing but misled the people by producing a tampered version of the BJP’s manifesto on the almost same line.“If you see the manifesto of Congress, it has most of the issues, which already have been taken up by the BJP and either work had been completed on many of those issues or it was under process,” Shekhawat claimed.Sharing some data pertaining to crop insurance, Shekhawat said that 25.32 lakh farmers in Rajasthan were given a claim worth Rs 1,694 crore in 2016 alone and the claim worth more than Rs 4,000 crore has already been paid to the farmers of state in past two years.“The farmer of state was happy with this coverage and this procedure would be made more effective in the time to come, the process of which has already started,” Shekhawat claimed.He also referred to the claim of Congress to improve the MSP mechanism and asked what improvement them meant, when the credit guarantee worth Rs 45,000 crores have been provided to NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India) against a meagre Rs 2,950 crores during Congress’s rule.He asked that what kind of crop insurance and MSP, Congress wanted to introduce now, which could be better than those of BJP.

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