{"id":306193,"date":"2018-11-27T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306193"},"modified":"2018-11-27T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T11:24:46","slug":"bjp-releases-manifesto-for-rajasthan-assembly-elections-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-releases-manifesto-for-rajasthan-assembly-elections-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP releases manifesto for Rajasthan assembly elections 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-releases-manifesto-for-rajasthan-assembly-elections-2018\/rajasthan-manifesto\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-306194\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306194 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rajasthan-manifesto-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/rajasthan-manifesto-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/rajasthan-manifesto.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on November 27 released its manifesto for Rajasthan assembly elections to be held on December 7, saying that party had met 95 percent of the promises it had made in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Rajasthan election manifesto was unveiled by Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Prakash Javadekar, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, in the presence of BJP leaders and other workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prior to the release of the manifesto, state CM Raje said that the BJP government in the state met 630 of the 665 promises made in the 2013 Rajasthan manifesto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CM Raje added, &#8220;The overall completion is 95 percent.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Highlights of 2018 Manifesto:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 50 lakh jobs will be created in the private sector in the next five years in Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Every year, 30,000 jobs will be given in the government sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nearly Rs 5,000 per month will be given as unemployment allowance to eligible youths above the age of 21 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To encourage girl education, the government will provide meals, regular health checkups and laptops. After completing school, girls will receive Rs. 50,000 in their bank account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Financial assistance for women, from birth till old age, is also part of the declaration of the manifesto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The manifesto also announces insurance, which will have cover for any disability, illness or accident for farmers, in addition to setting up of a farm loan waiver commission, Rs. 200 crore start-up funds and transparent implementation of minimum support price.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on November 27 released its manifesto for Rajasthan assembly elections to be held on December 7, saying that party had met 95 percent of the promises it had made in 2013. The Rajasthan election manifesto was unveiled by Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Prakash Javadekar, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[2879,453,9932,485,1478,5405,3218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306196,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306193\/revisions\/306196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}