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Karnataka poll: BJP promises rice at Re. one a
kg for poor
Friday April 19, 2013 08:37:20 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore:
Karnataka's ruling BJP, going to the May 5 assembly poll battling
corruption scandals, Friday promised 25kg rice at one rupee a kg
to the poor and free lap-tops to class 12 and college students if
voted to power again.
Lessons on "cultural nationalism" and moral values, introduction
of Yoga as part of syllabus in schools and colleges, priority for
Kannada medium students in higher education and employment, free
Wi-Fi and internet for all schools and colleges are other promises
made in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) manifesto for the poll.
Releasing the manifesto here, senior party leader Arun Jaitley
contended that the one rupee a kg rice and free laptops offers
were not populist schemes. The cheap rice scheme would ensure
right to food to the poor while students would make good use of IT
equipment in a state known as India's tech hub.
Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, state BJP chief Pralhad Joshi,
and party general secretary H. N Ananth Kumar were present at the
manifesto release function.
On the problems faced by the party during its first term in office
in the state in the last five years, Jaitley whenever BJP faced
such difficulties, it stood by values and ideals rather than
individuals.
"We have emerged cleaner, stronger and more cohesive," he said in
an apparent reference to party's first chief minister B.S.
Yeddyurappa and his followers leaving the party.
Yeddyurappa quit in July 2011 over mining bribery charges. He had
last year left the BJP and formed his Karnataka Janata Party.
Shettar, who became BJP's third chief minister in July last year,
said he and his predecessor D. V. Sadandanda Gowda had "provided
corruption-free and transparent government.
Gowda succeeded Yeddyurappa in August 2011.
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