Kolkata: The Congress on Monday launched its manifesto for West Bengal meeting polls, stressing that it needs to revive the glory that the state loved within the Nineteen Fifties and 60s below the then chief minister, Bidhan Chandra Roy, extensively thought to be the architect of contemporary Bengal.
The Congress, which has cast an alliance with the Left Entrance and the newly fashioned Indian Secular Entrance (ISF) for the meeting elections, mentioned within the doc that it doesn’t imagine in “politics of freebies”, however would guarantee healthful growth of West Bengal.
Sustaining that Bengal had progressed properly in the course of the tenure of BC Roy, who introduced a number of heavy industries to the state, WBPCC president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mentioned the occasion has highlighted eight points that it needs to deal with, if voted to energy.
The Congress, if allowed to type authorities, will prioritise the state’s regulation and order scenario, girls’s security, social safety, industrialisation and job creation.
The manifesto additionally promised to take steps for farmers’ growth, which embrace a minimum of 20 per cent subsidy on the electrical energy that can be used for irrigation.
The occasion gave assurance that it could power training and well being infrastructure, protect the state’s tradition, heritage and artwork, and supply clear ingesting water to each family within the state.
“Folks shouldn’t make the error of selecting the TMC or the BJP, claiming that they’re two flowers of the identical stem. We’ve framed a brand new slogan — ”Prolong your hand, save Bengal. We’re the one occasion that would work for the betterment of the state’s future,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Admitting that a number of Congress activists have objected to the selection of candidates, Mr Chowdhury mentioned the grand previous occasion, nonetheless, needed to put up with “little trouble” as in comparison with the TMC or the BJP.
“The protests present that many individuals are concerned with representing the Congress, which is nothing however a really wholesome signal. Seats in our quota are restricted, and that’s the reason (we couldn’t please all)…”
The Congress is contesting from 90-odd constituencies, as a part of the alliance stitched for meeting polls, which can be held in eight phases for the 294-member Home.
