CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: The Congress’ seven poll promises for the Assembly elections in Haryana, which it prefers to call guarantees, are in keeping with what the party believes is by now a formula tried and tested in state elections as also the Lok Sabha polls.
The seven guarantees for Haryana polls unveiled today at the Congress headquarters in Delhi by party president Mallikarjun Kharge include Rs 2000 per month for women from the age of 18 to 60 years, gas cylinder at Rs 500, Rs 6,000 monthly pension to senior citizens, filling up of two lakh vacancies in government jobs, legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price for crops, up to 300 units of electricity free of cost, housing for the poor and free healthcare of up to Rs 25 lakh.
The party has also promised to conduct a caste survey and enhance the creamy layer limit for reservation for the Other Backward Castes from an annual income of Rs 6 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.
A much detailed manifesto for the election will be declared in Chandigarh later. However, it is felt within the party that the guarantees it announced in other state elections as also in the Lok Sabha polls have found resonance with the people. The assessment is that the party organisation has also found it easier to communicate the poll promises in the form of guarantees to the people and campaigns can be designed around the themes that the guarantees embody.
Previous elections have seen the party come out with campaign material focusing on the different guarantees that cater to different segments of the society.