Vision document for Tripura focuses on development: Jaitley at release

AGARTALA: The BJP’S vision document for the February 18 Tripura assembly elections promises to implement Seventh Pay Commission recommendations for government employees who are still being paid as per Fourth Pay Commission, regularise contractual employees working in government sector and provide one employment to each household.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, who released the document, on Sunday said it focused on development. “PM Narendra Modi has ushered in development after coming to power and the vision document has also given priority to the politics of development,” Jaitley said.

The BJP, which accuses the Left Front government of corruption, is seeking to end the CPI(M)’S 25-year rule in the state.

The document also promises to provide free education for women till graduation, free smartphones for youngsters, free health insurance to below poverty line households, social allowances of minimum ₹2,000 with minimum wage of ₹340 per day to meet national standard, probe into the Rose Valley chit fund case and action against the accused.

Keeping in mind Tripura’s former royals, the document also mentions establishment of a cultural art academy named after erstwhile king Birendra Kishore Manikya Bahadur, renaming Agartala Airport after Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore Deb Burman and a music academy after Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore.

For the indigenous people, it promises to strengthen Tripura Tribal State Autonomous District Council with more financial power. It also promises to hand over murder cases of journalists Shantanu Bhowmik and Sudip Datta Bhowmik to the CBI if it comes to power.

Jaitley claimed the Left Front had controlled the people of the state through fear psychosis but the fear had turned into hatred for the establishment.