Unlike the Telugu Desam manifesto, which promised free colour TV sets and cash transfer scheme for the poor, the Congress manifesto released on Monday is simple and straight: the party would take forward its development and welfare agenda with more vigour.
“We don’t make fancy and impracticable promises in air. Our feet are firmly on the ground. We will take our existing programmes forward with more vigour and eradicate poverty,” Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy said while releasing the manifesto. He rejected the theory that the Rs 2 a kg rice scheme and free power to farmers were populist schemes. “They are a sort of incentives to the people who work hard,” he said.
Among the new promises made in the manifesto are: nine-hour uninterrupted power supply to agriculture free of cost and round-the-clock power supply to the other sectors throughout the state; creating a hutless state in the next five years, supply of LPG connections to all houses and increasing per head rice quota from 4 kg to 6 kg a month at Rs 2 a kg.
Besides, the manifesto promised extension of “pavala vaddi” scheme to rural artisans, 100 per cent electrification of all households, construction of toilets for all weaker section houses and issuance of biometric identity cards to all citizens in the state.
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