BJP released Manifesto 2017 for Gujarat Assembly Election
Today in Ahmedabad BJP Bharatiya Janta Party released its Manifesto 2017 for Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, BJP Gujarat president Jitu Vaghani and BJP leader Bhupender Yadav released BJP’s manifesto.
FM Jaitley in a press meet said that the document will focus on the party’s development plan for Gujarat at the release of Sankalp Patra. BJP leaders hits back on Congress promises in their political manifesto, saying that they were “unrealistic” and it had “no link to governance.” Jaitley, added that the grand old party’s poll manifesto in Gujarat assuring reservation for Patidars and farm loan waiver was “constitutionally unviable” and “financially improbable.”
FM stated on the rate of growth in Gujarat. Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) growth is the highest in country. In five years, Gujarat grew at the average rate of 10 % among large states. He also emphasised that Gujarat was the only one among the larger states which had a two figures average rate of growth in this time period. He argued that even China was not seeing these figures of growth.
Jaitley added that these numbers should give detractors of the Gujarat model something to mull over. The performance speaks for itself. Those questioning the Gujarat model, the 10 percent growth rate, must understand with seriousness Gujarat’s GDP growth. The state under BJP rule has witnessed development in every social and financial sector. He added that BJP brought about growth in every sector in the western state, be it infrastructure and welfare for the weaker sections of society or education and healthcare facilities.
He said that the manifesto released would noties.Jaitley also said that the manifesto released on Friday would not feature images of leaders keeping in mind the Election Commission’s code of conduct rules which state that photographs of leaders should not be advertised 48 hours prior to voting. He added that the document along with images will be available on the BJP website on Saturday at 5 pm. In another attack on the Opposition party, Jaitley asserted that the party should not attempt social polarisation in Gujarat. “Social polarisation in Gujarat will be politics of damage for the state, and if the Congress moves in that path, it will cause harm to the state,” Jaitley said.
He also said that a lot of promises Congress made under their manifesto were policies that were already in place at the Central and state levels. He mentioned the Minimum Support Price (MSP) being offered to cotton farmers, crop insurance, canal network irrigation and other facilities as examples to his case.
