New Delhi: Union Minister and BJP National President JP Nadda released the party’s resolution in Delhi on Friday. He told about the party’s plans for women, the elderly, widows, the disabled and the poor.
He said that if BJP government is formed in Delhi, women will be given ₹2500 every month. ₹500 subsidy will be given for cylinders for the poor. One cylinder will be given free on Holi-Diwali.
The pension of 60-70 year olds will be increased from ₹2000 to ₹2500. Widows, disabled, and elderly above 70 years will get ₹3000 pension. ₹500 has also been increased in this.
The Center’s Ayushman Yojana will be implemented. 51 lakh people will get the benefit of this. In this, an additional ₹5 lakh health cover will be given by the Delhi government. Including the central government’s scheme, a total health cover of ₹10 lakh will be provided
Under the Atal Canteen Scheme, nutritious food will be provided to the poor in Delhi’s slums for Rs 5. Apart from this, the free electricity, water and bus facility of the current government will continue.
Earlier, BJP on Thursday released its fourth list of nine candidates for the polls, thus declaring 68 of the 70 names, leaving two seats for its allies. Party has allocated two seats to its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies, Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) and Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas).
While JD(U) will contest from the Burari seat, LJP will fight the poll from the Deoli assembly seat. Notably, JD(U) has announced Shailendra Kumar as its candidate from Burari, the LJP (RV) is likely to field a candidate from Deoli. Both the JD(U) and LJP (Ram Vilas), with a stronghold in Bihar that goes to polls this year, are key partners in the BJP-NDA.
The BJP fielded some of its heavyweights in the fray, including Dushyant Gautam from Karol Bagh, Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, and former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar. Parvesh Verma, a former MP and son of former Delhi CM Sahib Singh Verma, will give fight to Kejriwal on the New Delhi seat.
Congress has fielded Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit from the seat. BJP has fielded its former MP Ramesh Bidhuri from Kalkaji against Atishi.
A three-way contest is on the cards in Delhi between the ruling AAP, BJP and Congress. Congress, which was in power for 15 consecutive years in Delhi, has suffered setbacks in the last two assembly elections and has failed to win any seat. AAP dominated the 2020 assembly elections by winning 62 out of 70 seats while the BJP got eight seats. The Congress had already declared 68 candidates out of Delhi’s 70 assembly seats. The ruling AAP has already declared its candidates for all 70 seats.