AAP pronounces ballot manifesto for Delhi elections; guarantees 15 ‘Kejriwal’s ensures’

AAP leaders through the launch of their celebration’s manifesto for the Delhi Meeting elections, on January 27, 2025, in Delhi.
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Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday introduced the celebration’s 15-point manifesto for the Delhi Meeting election, ‘Kejriwal ki assure’ (Kejriwal’s assure), with the promise on employment for youth getting essentially the most significance.

“The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Social gathering), Congress, and different events make guarantees throughout elections, however they’re simply hole slogans below completely different names. After we began utilizing the time period ‘assure’, in addition they started utilizing it. However they’ve devalued the time period ‘assure’. Nonetheless, that is Kejriwal’s assure, not Modi’s. It is a agency assure, not a hole one like theirs. At the moment, we’re saying 15 ‘Kejriwal ki ensures’ which shall be fulfilled within the subsequent 5 years,” Mr. Kejriwal mentioned at a press convention on the celebration’s headquarters in New Delhi.

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“As per Central authorities knowledge, Delhi has the bottom unemployment. Nationwide degree unemployment is 6% however in Delhi, it’s 2%. We want that there isn’t any one who’s unemployed in Delhi. We’re planning to present jobs to each youth in Delhi,” Mr. Kejriwal mentioned.

All 15 factors within the manifesto have been introduced by the celebration over the past one-and-a-half years within the run-up to the Meeting election, together with the ‘Mahila Samman Yojana’ and ‘Sanjeevani Yojana’. There are not any new guarantees.

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Different guarantees embody the waiving off fallacious water payments, extending advantages of free water and electrical energy to tenants, and ₹18,000 per thirty days to clergymen and granthis.

Within the run as much as the 2020 election, the AAP had introduced its manifesto with a 10-point ‘Kejriwal ki assure’. Earlier this month, Mr. Kejriwal had mentioned that he couldn’t fulfil three of these guarantees, however work had been performed on all three of them, which he reiterated on Monday.

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“The following three ensures, we had made in 2020 too. We had mentioned that we might give 24-hour water provide. We had mentioned that we might clear the Yamuna. We had mentioned that we might make roads in Delhi of European requirements. However we couldn’t fulfil these three guarantees. There was the COVID-19 pandemic for two-and-a-half years, after which we had been jailed in pretend instances. Within the subsequent 5 years, we’ll fulfil these three guarantees. We now have funds and full plans for them,” the previous Delhi Chief Minister mentioned.

Nonetheless, different guarantees within the 2020 manifesto, together with discount in air air pollution; underground cables to deliver electrical energy to each family; and pucca homes for slum dwellers, stay unfulfilled.

Mr. Kejriwal claimed that, in whole, households in Delhi had been presently saving ₹25,000 per thirty days due to the insurance policies of the AAP authorities. “Should you press the fallacious button, in case you press the ‘lotus’ (the BJP’s election image) button, an extra ₹25,000 per thirty days shall be added to every household’s bills,” he mentioned.

Hitting out on the AAP, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that the 15 ensures issued by Mr. Kejriwal on Monday within the identify of a manifesto had been merely false guarantees that had neither been fulfilled through the decade-long rule of the celebration nor would they ever be. He additionally challenged Mr. Kejriwal to debate on any of the 15 “false ensures” with any spokesperson of the BJP.