Vijayawada: High drama unfolded during the release of a common manifesto for the TD-JS-BJP alliance at TD chief Chandrababu Naidu’s residence in Undavalli here on Tuesday.
For one, there was a prolonged delay by more than three hours for the start of the event. BJP’s AP election co-incharge Siddarth Nath Singh sought to distance himself from the event, while Naidu and Pawan Kayan released the manifesto together.
Though this is cited as the ‘common manifesto of the NDA’, the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was missing even as the images of both Naidu and Pawan Kalyan were displayed on the cover of the common manifesto.
Siddarth Nath Singh stated that the BJP national leadership had released its manifesto last week and he was attending the event here as the BJP is associated with the two regional parties in AP.
Informed sources however said that there was some disagreement on certain issues mentioned in the common manifesto and this resulted in TD national general secretary Nara Lokesh scooting from the scene.
TD chief Naidu however put on a brave front. He explained the important features of the common manifesto and promised to provide youths 20 lakh jobs in the next five years and an unemployment allowance of `3,000 per month as part of the TD’s Super Six programme.
He promised to pay `15,000 per student per annum and `20,000 to farmers per head per annum and `1,500 to every woman aged between 19 to 59 years per month. These are in addition to providing three domestic gas refills free of cost per household per annum and free travel to women in RTC buses.
With regard to Super Six 2.0 called as Shanmukha Vyooham, proposed by the JS, every house would get a water tap, schemes for poor to become rich, a statewide skill census programme to enhance skills of the people and to provide `10 lakh subsidy to people to set up small and medium scale industries.
The TD and JS leaders vowed to develop Amaravati as the capital city for AP and announced to notify mega DSC and release of the job calendar every year.
The common manifesto promised to set up special employment zones for providing job opportunities to people in north Andhra, coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, amenities to promote sports and games at global level and digital libraries.
The manifesto promised to implement 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections of the population (EWS) as was done by the NDA, and to take up an economic survey every five years to implement/modify reservations.
The common manifesto also mentioned about subsidies on power tariff to washermen and abolition of GO 217 for the benefit of fishermen.
It announced plans to set up a corporation for goldsmiths and a series of benefits to women, employees, pensioners, farmers, SCs, STs, Muslims and Christians. It intends to promote agriculture and make efforts to curb rise in prices of fuels besides developing education and aquaculture. It would work for development of north Andhra by making Visakhapatnam the financial capital of AP and development of Rayalaseema, besides introducing a free sand policy.
Sampat G. Samritan | DC
Vijayawada, April 30
High drama unfolded during the release of a common manifesto for the TD-JS-BJP alliance at TD chief Chandrababu Naidu’s residence in Undavalli here on Tuesday.
For one, there was a prolonged delay by more than three hours for the start of the event. BJP’s AP election co-incharge Siddarth Nath Singh sought to distance himself from the event, while Naidu and Pawan Kayan released the manifesto together.
Though this is cited as the ‘common manifesto of the NDA’, the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was missing even as the images of both Naidu and Pawan Kalyan were displayed on the cover of the common manifesto.
Siddarth Nath Singh stated that the BJP national leadership had released its manifesto last week and he was attending the event here as the BJP is associated with the two regional parties in AP.
Informed sources however said that there was some disagreement on certain issues mentioned in the common manifesto and this resulted in TD national general secretary Nara Lokesh scooting from the scene.
TD chief Naidu however put on a brave front. He explained the important features of the common manifesto and promised to provide youths 20 lakh jobs in the next five years and an unemployment allowance of `3,000 per month as part of the TD’s Super Six programme.
He promised to pay `15,000 per student per annum and `20,000 to farmers per head per annum and `1,500 to every woman aged between 19 to 59 years per month. These are in addition to providing three domestic gas refills free of cost per household per annum and free travel to women in RTC buses.
With regard to Super Six 2.0 called as Shanmukha Vyooham, proposed by the JS, every house would get a water tap, schemes for poor to become rich, a statewide skill census programme to enhance skills of the people and to provide `10 lakh subsidy to people to set up small and medium scale industries.
The TD and JS leaders vowed to develop Amaravati as the capital city for AP and announced to notify mega DSC and release of the job calendar every year.
The common manifesto promised to set up special employment zones for providing job opportunities to people in north Andhra, coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, amenities to promote sports and games at global level and digital libraries.
The manifesto promised to implement 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections of the population (EWS) as was done by the NDA, and to take up an economic survey every five years to implement/modify reservations.
The common manifesto also mentioned about subsidies on power tariff to washermen and abolition of GO 217 for the benefit of fishermen.
It announced plans to set up a corporation for goldsmiths and a series of benefits to women, employees, pensioners, farmers, SCs, STs, Muslims and Christians. It intends to promote agriculture and make efforts to curb rise in prices of fuels besides developing education and aquaculture. It would work for development of north Andhra by making Visakhapatnam the financial capital of AP and development of Rayalaseema, besides introducing a free sand policy.
