Karnataka Polls: Old Pension Scheme, Ban On Bajrang Dal, Vow to Remove BJP’s ‘Unjust Laws’ In Congress Manifesto | Top Promises

Allowances for unemployed youths, free travel for women, and pensions under the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for government employees are among the top promises made by the Congress party in its manifesto for the upcoming Assembly polls in Karnataka.

Congress also promised to ban outfits like Bajrang Dal and repeal all ‘unjust, anti-people laws’ passed by the BJP government within one year, if elected to power.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) president and Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjuna Kharge, AICC general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar, Assembly Opposition leader Siddaramaiah, Legislative Council opposition leader BK Hariprasad and manifesto committee chairman G. Parameshwar, among others were part of the manifesto launch at Shangharila Hotel in Bangalore.

Top Promises in Congress’s Manifesto

• Manifesto stated that government employees appointed post-2006 will get pensions under the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).
• Equating the banned Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) with Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Sangh-affiliated Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Congress said it will ban such organisations that promote “enmity or hatred, whether among majority or minority communities”.
• Party promised to constitute Bharata Jodo social harmony committee in every gram panchayat.
• The manifesto said if the party comes to power in Karnataka, it will abolish corruption in “PWD, rural development, irrigation, urban development and power sector by enacting a special law to punish the perpetrators.”
• Congress promised a special allowance of Rs 5000 per month for police officials on night duty.
• Congress said it will implement ‘Milk Kranti’. to produce 1.5 crore litre of milk production per day.
• It also promised to increase subsidies on milk for farmers from Rs 5 to Rs 7.
• The Congress has also promised to set up a dedicated fund of Rs 2,000 crore to modernise all the existing courts of the state.
• The party promised to set up high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots in every village panchayat of the state.
• Under the Mahatma Gandhi Gram Swaraj Scheme, Congress promised to invest Rs 50,000 crore in five years to improve villages which includes providing clean drinking water, sanitation, basic education, health and all-weather roads.
• the manifesto proposed Krishi Sarvodaya Nidhi, under which, if voted to power, congress will allocate Rs 1.50 lakh crore in five years for the modernisation of agriculture, subsidy, loan and insurance.
• Congress also promised to support 5,000 women entrepreneurs every year and announced to nurture 5,000 Stree-Shakti micro-enterprises over five years to encourage women to take up modern needs like food processing, catering, mobile canteens, solid waste management etc.
• Congress also promised to include 200 units of free power to each household.
• Manifesto said the party will give Rs 2,000 to each woman head of the family under the Gruha Lakshmi project and a sum of Rs 3,000 for two years to unemployed graduates.

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