The Asian Age

Telangana: BJP to give free cows to villagers

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Hyderabad, Nov. 10: The BJP, in its manifesto for the December 7 Assembly elections in Telangana, has proposed free distributi­on of one lakh cows every year. The proposal is to distribute cows in villages, at the time of festivals, to people who seek them, the BJP’s manifesto committee chairman N. V. S. S. Prabhakar said on Saturday. The BJP’s manifesto is likely to be released formally early next week. The manifesto committee earlier proposed regulating sale of liquor, total waiver of the tax on petrol and diesel, free online and offline coaching to youth appearing for competitiv­e examinatio­ns and provision of safe drinking water for ` 6 per month per household. Another proposal is to set up a “mini- India linguistic welfare board” to take care of the welfare of linguistic minorities.

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