BackDelhi Polls: Congress manifesto promises free electricity, anti-CAA resolution
Congress also promised regularising all unauthorised colonies in the capitalCongress faces one of its toughest electoral challenges, as incumbent AAP and BJP lock horns as key contenders
PremiumNew Delhi: Congress on Sunday released its manifesto for the upcoming assembly elections in Delhi, promising free electricity up to 300 units and monthly unemployment allowance of Rs. 5,000 to graduates and Rs. 7,500 to postgraduates. The party also pledged a quarter of Delhi’s annual budget to combat pollution and improve transportation.
Congress promised passing a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, in its first assembly session if voted to power.
“INC (Indian National Congress) will launch a Yuva Swabhiman Yojana - an unemployment allowance for graduate youth at ₹5,000 per month and for post-graduate youth at Rs. 7,500 per month. INC shall also launch the Yaari Startup Incubation Fund – a ₹5,000 crore corpus to incentivise young entrepreneurs to open startups," Congress said.
Congress also promised to regularise all unauthorised colonies and said it will spend ₹35,000 crore in the next five years for their upliftment. With key focus on infrastructure in the capital, it promised subsidised metro travel for women, students and elderly and said it will “immediately procure" 15,000 electric buses to improve connectivity.
Congress faces one of its toughest electoral challenges, as incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and an electorally resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lock horns as key contenders for Delhi elections. Till 2013, Congress was in power in Delhi for an uninterrupted 15 years.
Delhi assembly elections will be held on 8 February, and among the main contenders, Congress is the second party to release its manifesto after BJP. Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP is yet to release its manifesto.
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