Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on August 19 announced 10 poll guarantees for Chhattisgarh. Assembly elections are due in the State later this year.
Mr. Kejriwal revealed nine of them at a public rally in State capital Raipur, including financial assistance of ₹1,000 for select categories of women; monthly unemployment allowance of ₹3,000; free electricity of up to 300 units for 24 hours and waiver of pending electricity bills; and ₹1 crore to families of security personnel who die on duty. He said that the tenth guarantee on “tribals and farmers” — two categories that comprise a bulk of the electorate — would be revealed during his next visit.
Asserting that education and health services would be improved on the lines of Delhi and Punjab, two States ruled by the his party, Mr. Kejriwal also took a veiled dig at the government led by his party’s INDIA (Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance) bloc partner, the Congress, which rules Chhattisgarh. He alleged that the condition of schools in the State was terrible.
