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BJP’s manifesto for Telangana dodges anti-freebies policy, promises several sops

After the Congress guarantees and KCR (BRS) Bharosa, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its manifesto for Telangana Assembly elections in the name of “Sakala Janula Saubhagya Telangana – PM Modi’s Guarantee” with about 25 issues mainly divided into 10 broad features (areas).

Releasing the 48-page document here on Saturday evening, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated that if voted to power the party government would order a probe into all irregularities and scams the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government committed in the execution of projects and implementation of programmes and schemes with a retired judge of the Supreme Court and it would include the Dharani portal too.

Perhaps moving away from its policy of freebies, the BJP manifesto talks about several pro-farmers measures free of cost, including the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the crop insurance scheme, input assistance of ₹2,500 per acre to small and marginal farmers, in addition to the PM-Kisan given at ₹6,000 per farmer every year and ₹18,000 per acre fertilizer subsidy.

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