NDA promises to develop Amaravati as single capital in joint manifesto

Vijayawada: After including promises made in the Super Six Guarantees by the Telugu Desam Party and Jana Sena Party's 'Shamukh Vyuham,' the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which formed a three-party alliance in Andhra Pradesh to dislodge YSRCP Government by preventing division in anti-establishment votes, on Tuesday promised a joint manifesto to pay Rs 1500 as pension to eligible women, 3,000 to jobless youth per month and free bus travel to women.

YSRCP State general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy described the manifesto as another attempt to hoodwink the voters while the alliance claimed that they have formulated the manifesto after a lot of consultation to usher in good governance in the State after Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy looted the exchequer with indiscriminate borrowing of loans to push it to a debt trap due to fiscal indiscipline.

Releasing the manifesto with just two weeks away for May 13 simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly, TDP national president N Chandrababu Naidu and JSP founder K Pawan Kalyan and senior leaders of BJP said at Undavalli near here that they are committed to supply three LPG cylinders per household and a financial aid of Rs 15,000 per year to school going children. The three party alliance has left 144 seats in Assembly to TDP and 17 LS seats leaving, six LS and 10 Assembly to BJP and the remaining to JSP as part of seat-sharing arrangement. The Super Six guarantees, announced by the TDP earlier, Naidu said their "Super Six guarantees have become a super hit." The BJP had earlier unveiled the list of Modi's guarantees promised by pan India as part of 'Vikasit Bharat' mission. BJP State president Daggubati Purandeswari had earlier stated that they are going to the polls with the party's national manifesto by projecting Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister for a third consecutive term.

Pawan Kalyan said the joint manifesto has been prepared to meet the aspirations of tomorrow, improve the financial position of the State with the support of the Centre and put an end to suicide by the farmers. He said they would develop Amaravati as the single capital with global standards and complete the construction of the multi-purpose Polavaram project on a fast-track mode.

The manifesto pledges to create free drinking water tap connection, investment assistance of Rs 20,000 per acre per year per acre to farmers. under Thalliki Vandanam Rs 15,000 per annum to every school-going child, supply of power at Rs 1.50 per unit to aquaculture farmers, continuation of Amaravati as the single capital, repeal of Land Rights Act, payment of Rs 20,000 per month to fishermen during the annual fishing holiday, creation of 20 lakh jobs by releasing mega DSC every year and distribution of two cents of land in urban areas and three cents in urban areas to the homeless poor.

The manifesto also promises to provide financial assistance to the farmers for undertaking boat repairs, a special legislation to pay social security pension of Rs 4,000 per month with effect from April 1, 2024 and granting a subsidy of Rs 10 lakh to MSMEs. The manifesto promises to grant Rs 1.5 lakh crore for BC sub plan in five years, to review the Contributory Pension Scheme, justice to outsourced workers in various departments and corporations and doubling of honorarium to volunteers to Rs 10,000 per month.