Cong paper a fraud on the people: BJP

JAIPUR: It looks like Congress has outsourced the work of making the manifesto to some agency. It is misguide the people ARUN CHATURVEDI, Social justice and empowerment minister

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday called the Congress’ election manifesto “a fraud on the people”, saying that the party’s governments in Karnataka and Punjab had similarly promised to waive farmers’ loan but “not a single penny has been waived”.

BJP’s election management committee co-convener and Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal claimed that the Congress had “got the farmers to fill loan waiver forms”, referring to the party’s campaign activity in Punjab before the polls in January last year, “but did nothing in this regard after coming to power”. Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh had

Meghwal said, the Congress party has mentioned ‘Right to Health’, which is a copy of ‘Ayushman Bharat’ of the BJP. It speaks of giving allowance of Rs 3,500 to unemployed youth, whereas the BJP has promised to give ~5,000 in its manifesto.

The BJP on Friday will launch a ‘Kamal Diya’ campaign, where party workers will seek to make contact with “51 lakh beneficiary families”, the leader said. The campaign will next be taken up between December 2 and 4.

Social justice and empowerment minister Arun Chaturvedi told reporters that the Congress’ manifesto was “a mere formality”. “It looks like the Congress has outsourced the work of making the manifesto to some agency. It is an attempt to misguide people,” he alleged.

Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, too, alleged that the Congress has copied the BJP’s manifesto.

While talking to reporters in Jodhpur, he said most of the public welfare issues in the Congress’s manifesto have already been raised by the BJP.