Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will launch the Congress manifesto on Tuesday for the upcoming Jharkhand Meeting Elections, outlining vital welfare schemes aimed toward girls, marginalised communities, and farmers. The Congress ‘ensures’ might be unveiled in Ranchi at 5 PM.
The guarantees might embrace a month-to-month allowance for girls underneath the ‘Mahiya Samman Yojana’ whereby they may obtain a month-to-month allowance of Rs 2,500 ranging from December 2024. Poor households will get an elevated free electrical energy provision of 250 models monthly, whereas electrical energy for agricultural functions might be free.
The Congress is more likely to promise a caste census and lift the OBC creamy layer restrict to Rs 10 lakh. The guarantees might embrace the procurement value for paddy to be elevated from Rs 2,400 to Rs 3,200 per quintal, communities beforehand recognised as Scheduled Castes (SC) in Bihar to obtain SC standing in Jharkhand.
Languages similar to “Ho,” “Mundari,” and “Kurukh” could also be proposed for inclusion within the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Structure. The Congress is predicted to vow Excessive-quality English medium faculties to be established in every block, and sports activities coaching to be facilitated in faculties via sports activities organisations.
The occasion can also be more likely to promise to fill all vacant authorities positions inside a specified timeframe.
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Kharge Calls PM Modi ‘Jhootho Ke Sardar’, Expresses Congress Dedication To Implement ‘Ensures’
Earlier within the day, addressing a rally in Hazaribagh, Kharge emphasised Congress’s resolve to ship on its guarantees to the folks of Jharkhand.
Throughout the rally, Kharge reaffirmed Congress’s dedication to implementing ‘ensures’, referencing welfare schemes in Karnataka. “We have now allotted Rs 52,000 crore for poverty alleviation schemes in Karnataka, of which Rs 24,017 crore has already been utilised,” he acknowledged. He additionally cited price range allocations in Karnataka for the Gruha Jyoti scheme (Rs 9,657 crore), Shakti scheme totally free bus service for girls (Rs 5,015 crore), Gruha Lakshmi scheme providing Rs 2,000 monthly to girls heads of households (Rs 28,608 crore), and the Anna Bhagya and Yuva Nidhi schemes.
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Throughout the Jharkhand marketing campaign, Kharge additionally launched a pointy critique towards the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), alleging that the occasion’s motive in Jharkhand was to grab management of the state’s coal and mineral sources. He asserted that “the BJP leaders congregating in poll-bound Jharkhand outnumber the candidates, highlighting their desperation to wrest energy from a tribal chief minister”, as quoted by information company PTI.
He went on to name Prime Minister Narendra Modi the ‘jhootho ke sardar’ (head of liars), alleging that Modi’s promise of offering two crore jobs stays unfulfilled. “The BJP is after Jharkhand’s ‘black gold’ and has no intention of serving the folks,” he remarked. Kharge additionally claimed, “5 per cent of the wealthy management 60 per cent of the nation’s wealth, whereas 50 per cent of poor residents personal solely three per cent.” He criticised the federal government for waiving Rs 16 lakh crore in loans for the rich whereas neglecting the poor, farmers, and Dalits.
Kharge voiced confidence in Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, affirming, “Nobody can dare take away Hemant Soren. He would be the subsequent chief minister of Jharkhand.” Kharge urged the BJP-led Centre to clear coal dues price Rs 1.36 lakh crore for Jharkhand, which he stated would straight profit the folks of the state.
The Jharkhand Meeting elections are scheduled for November 13 and 20, with vote counting set for November 23.