Ahmedabad: Gujarat BJP today announced its manifesto for general elections of assembly 2017 in presence of State election incharge Arun Jaitley, state party president Jitubhai Vaghani and members of manifesto committee of party. BJP has announced its manifesto a day before polling for first phase of election covering Saurashtra and South Gujarat regions.

Speaking on this occasion, Shri Jaitley said, the model code of conduct imposed by the Election Commission is effective and there are some restrictions attached to 48 hours prior to polling. There is requirement that candidate’s photo can’t be published. Therefore today’s manifesto draft has not photographs of Chief Minister and State party president as they both are candidates. Revised version of manifesto draft will be made online tomorrow post 5.00 pm when first phase polling will be over. Chief Minister and State party president’s photos will be there on the new draft. Content however will remain same.

Jaitley in reference to Crisil rating agency data released a day ago said that among all large states of India, Gujarat is on the top to achieve double digit growth of 10% constantly in last five years followed by Madhya Pradesh which had 8.2% growth. Gujarat achieved such growth rate when global economy was not booming. In boom time China was growing at 9.5%.

Jaitley said continuous growth, unity and concern for every section are main ingredients of BJP manifesto. He said social polarization path attempted by Congress will harm the State like what happened in the decade of 1980s.

Commenting on Congress manifesto which was released early this week, Jaitley said, Congress promise to deliver reservation quota beyond 50% is constitutionally impossible. Some other promises are impossible financially. Gujarat’s total revenue is Rs 90,000 crore. Congress has promised to deliver Rs 1,21,000 crore additional concessions. Even from Rs 90,000 crore revenue, they have promised to waive off Rs 20,000 crore. Rest Rs 70,000 crore will be spent on salary, existing schemes and more. Additional Rs 1,21,000 crore concession promises are to be added to this.

Reacting to Congress promise to reduce fuel prices, Jaitley said the Centre cut the duty but Congress ruled states Punjab, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh didn’t reduce even a single Rupee in fuel prices. When Congress governments had opportunity they didn’t do it, and now they are making promises.

Jaitley said Congress had mentioned some programmes that are already implemented by BJP government. The government is already giving minimum support price for ground nut, delivering crop insurance, assistance for check dam and drip irrigation, loan under Mudra scheme.

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