Bhopal: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday launched the party’s election campaign for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections with five promises on the lines of Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka, where it won recently. Priyanka’s rally in Jabalpur also indicated that the Congress would take on the ruling BJP by highlighting scams, particularly alleged corruption in the Mahakal Lok Corridor project.
In 2018, after the then Congress President Rahul Gandhi promised to waive off farmers’ loans, and the party under Kamal Nath managed to return to power after a gap of 15 years, Priyanka campaigned by offering a financial scheme of Rs. 1500 per month, LPG cylinder at a subsidized rate of Rs 500 with cheap electricity.
It is worth mentioning that the Congress recently promised to provide Rs 1500 to women (with certain conditions) under its proposed scheme `Nari Samman Yojana` to counter BJP’s Ladli Bahna scheme launched by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. did. Similarly, the subsidized cooking gas will counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship ‘Ujjwala Yojana’ launched in May 2016.
Apart from these, the Congress made another big announcement of implementing the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) to garner the support of state government employees and their families in the upcoming elections. Affordable power is similar to what the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced in its first election in 2013 and has since maintained it in the states it contested.
Addressing a huge election rally in Jabalpur on Monday, Priyanka said, “The Congress government in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh has restored the OPS. In Karnataka, our government has given five guarantees (poll promises made by the party there).” has been completed.” ,
Notably, the Congress made similar five-point promises in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka and was successful in ousting the BJP from both the states and forming the government with absolute majority.
In her speech, Priyanka highlighted issues such as atrocities against women and tribals, unemployment and scams in Madhya Pradesh over the past 18 years under the BJP government led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Referring to the fall of the idols of Saptarishi in Ujjain’s Mahakal Lok Corridor, Priyanka said, ‘Shivraj government did not spare even God.’
Meanwhile, ridiculing BJP’s ‘double engine government’ poll talk, the general secretary said, “We have seen many double and triple engine governments, but the people of Himachal and Karnataka have given a befitting reply in the elections.”