Like Telangana, Congress Promises Five Guarantees To Maharashtrians

Hyderabad, Nov 10 (Maxim News): Never short of promises, the Congress-led Maha Vikas Agadhi released its manifesto for the Maharashtra polls, listing out five guarantees, much on the same lines as the Six Guarantees it had boasted of prior to the Assembly elections in Telangana.

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Interestingly, the manifesto released by AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge repeats much of the same promises that were made to the people of  Telangana, using which the Congress came to power here, but failed to implement even after 11 months of being in power.

According to the manifesto, the Mahalakshmi scheme‘s Maharashtra version promises women Rs. 3,000 per month. This was Rs. 2,500 a month in Telangana and remains on paper.

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The manifesto also assures a caste census and removes the 50 percent ceiling on reservation, in line with Tamil Nadu. The same census began after 10 months in Telangana but is facing stringent opposition from the people, more so because Congress had collected applications from them in the name of its ‘Praja Palana’ program, with the applications later found flying around on the streets. The Five Guarantees also includes another unkept promise from Telangana.

The one where the Congress promises the youth seeking jobs a monthly stipend of Rs. 4,000. Another repetition, again an unkept one, is the financial assistance for farmers. The Maharashtra version promises Rs. 50,000 each to farmers who repay their loans on time. The crop loan waiver in Telangana, though it raised hopes of the 40 lakh farmers in Telangana, now has over 18 lakh farmers still running around officials, literally begging for their loans to be waived off.

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The Rythu Bharosa scheme, which was to replace Rythu Bandhu Rs. 10,000 with Rs. 15,000 per acre, and an allowance of Rs. 12,000 for farm laborers, are both to take off in  Telangana, in turn driving farmers here into despair and misery and back to greedy money lenders. 

The free bus service for women and the health insurance scheme are the only two that have been launched in Telangana and have been repeated in Maharashtra. 

Interestingly, despite massive protests across the state over his government’s failure to keep its promises, and a belligerent BRS continuing to question the failed implementation of the Six Guarantees,  Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had on Saturday brazenly claimed at a press conference in Mumbai that all the Six Guarantees assured to the people of Telangana were implemented! (Maxim News)

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