New Delhi, India: Arvind Kejrwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today released its election manifesto for the upcoming Delhi polls. The manifesto outlines a 70-point action plan for the Delhi.
Some of the promises made by the AAP include; Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill, reducing electricity bills by half, performance audit of discoms by CAG, providing clean drinking water at an ‘affordable price’.
AAP has also said that it will work to Yamuna including sewer treatment and control affluent discharge. The manifesto also talks about opening new colleges, free Wi-Fi and installing CCTV cameras across the city.
The manifesto comes a few days after BJP decided to release a “vision document” for Delhi. For perhaps the first time in several decades, it seems arch-rivals BJP and Congress are ignoring each other in Delhi election campaigns, with both targeting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
BJP , which won all the seven Lok Sabha seats during Parliamentary election in Delhi last year, has roped in top adman Piyush Pandey of Ogilvy & Mather’s to launch publicity blitzkrieg in the last leg of campaigning, even as various opinion polls suggest a groundswell of support in favour of AAP and the possibility of yet another hung assembly in Delhi.
The Congress, which was used to taking out booklets or promotional leaflets questioning the BJP and its policies, has so far not taken on BJP or the prime minister. Its entire audio-visual campaign is focused on AAP and Arvind Kejriwal and the grand old party has also published a booklet on AAP’s promises.