CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday released its complete manifesto and promised to make Punjab farmers debt-free by December 2018 and create 25 lakh jobs besides making Punjab drug free within a month and open ‘Aam Aadmi’ canteens at sub-division and district-levels where one time meal would be for Rs 5 only.
AAP campaign committee chairman Bhagwant Mann and Dialogue committee convener Kanwar Sandhu said that agriculture, trade, industry, health, education, welfare of SC, BC and employment generation are core issues on which AAP government would focus.
Mann said that besides waiving off the debt of farmers, they would be paid compensation for crop damage at the rate of Rs 20,000 per acre. A compensation of Rs 10,000 would also be given to farm labourers if crop has failed. He said that Sir Chhotu Ram Act of 1934 on farm debts would be implemented and those farmers who have paid interest more than the loan amount would be deemed as paid.
The ahrtiyas would not be allowed to charge interest more than bank rates. He said that drug mafia would be smashed with iron hand and all political or non-political players involved in the drug trade would be behind bars within one month.
The de-addiction process of addicted youth would be completed within six months. He said that youth would be given ample opportunities for rehabilitation in government, industry, transport and mining sectors which would be opened for public participation.
Mann said that an SIT would be formed to probe all 95 cases of sacrilege and police firing on innocent Sikhs protesting against sacrilege at Behbal Kalan and guilty would be brought to book. He said that an exemplary punishment to the perpetrators of crime would be ensured.
He also said that welfare pension for the aged, widows and handicapped persons would be hiked from Rs 500 to Rs 2,500 per month.