Further promises made by Ashok Gehlot included purchasing cow dung at Rs 2 per kg
Jaipur, Rajasthan:
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced five guarantees ahead of the state Assembly polls, including free laptops and tablets for first year government students, implementation of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) through the law and Rs 15 lakh insurance cover for losses incurred during any natural disaster.
Elections to all 200 seats in the Rajasthan Assembly will be held on November 25 and counting of votes will take place on December 3.
Prime Minister Ashok Gehlot, while addressing a press conference in Jaipur, announced five guarantees for the people of the state and promised that the guarantees proposed by his government will be implemented if his government is re-elected in the November 25 elections.
He also said that the state government will purchase cow dung at Rs 2 per kilogram.
“Yesterday I hinted at announcing five guarantees. Guarantees must be given after consultation. We will enact a law to guarantee the old pension system if Congress comes back to power so that no government can hold back OPS in future,” Ashok Gehlot said.
Ashok Gehlot said his government will also provide smartphones with free internet to 1 crore women for three years.
Ashok Gehlot further announced the guarantee of English medium education to every student.
Ashok Gehlot’s five guarantees are in addition to two guarantees, including cooking gas cylinders of Rs 500 for families of 1.05 crore and an annual honorarium of Rs 10,000 to the female head of a family in installments.
The two plans were announced by Ashok Gehlot at Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s public meeting in Jhunjhunu on Wednesday.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister said senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s promise to waive off loans to farmers had been fulfilled in due course.
“Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge say they ‘keep the promises you make’. Last time, Rahul Gandhi promised to waive loans (from farmers) within seven days and that promise was fulfilled within the stipulated time,” he said on a press conference. in Jaipur.
However, speaking about the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra, the Chief Minister alleged that the agency targeted Dotasara because he was very vocal against the Center.
“The Congress chief (of Rajasthan) has been promoting the policies, programs and decisions of the government so much… but ED reached his house… It has only served its purpose as he speaks a lot about the government…, ” he said.
He further said that it is the ED, ‘more than dogs’ that is on the prowl in the country.
“A Chief Minister (Bhupesh Baghel) had to say that it is more than dogs that the ED is hunting in the country. (Desh me kutton se jyada ED ghum rahi hai). What can be a greater misfortune than this?” he said.
On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at the properties of Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dotasra and the party’s candidate for the Mahua Assembly seat as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged case of exam paper leakage in the state where elections are being held. .
The premises of Dotasara, a former School Education Minister, in Sikar and Jaipur, except party candidate from Mahua seat in Dausa, Omprakash Hudla and some others, were searched.
“What is happening in the country? Democracy is under threat. The Constitution has been torn to shreds. ED, Income Tax and CBI are following instructions (from the central government)… They have become a political weapon in the last nine years and are only conducting raids from opposition leaders,” Ashok Gehlot added.
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