CHANDIGARH: Under the “Ek parivar, ek rozgaar yojana”, the BJP on Sunday promised a house for every poor person, besides 2 kg ghee and 5 kg sugar for blue card holders and free education for girls of poor families till PhD, as Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley released the BJP manifesto for the Punjab Assembly elections.
Jaitley who released the saffron party’s manifesto in Jalandhar on Sunday said with the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) by July this year there would be an increase in the revenue of state governments. “Our poll manifesto is based on the infrastructure and social upliftment of the people of Punjab,” he said.
Jaitley said, “The alliance with SAD will continue like before and we will further expand developmental activities if given another term in the state.’’
The manifesto also promises implementation of the seventh pay commission, raising the retirement age of government employees to 60 years, to open five new Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) in the State. It also promised to make Punjab drug free.
Punjab BJP poll committee chairman Kamal Sharma said Rs 5 lakh relief money would be given to every family who got affected by terrorism in the State and to improve the economic condition of farmers, a Farms Income Commission will be constituted in the state that would help farmers to increase their revenue sources.
Also, a group housing scheme for journalists was announced in the manifesto.
To a question on demonetisation, Jaitley said, “A good move never fails.”
Jaitley, earlier in the day, blamed previous Congress governments for its policies which he, without taking the party’s name, said led to militancy in the 1980s in Punjab and took the state back in time.