Gameplan: TDP politburo in meeting at the NTR Bhavan in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
VV BalakrishnaFirst Published : 05 Mar 2009 08:32:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 05 Mar 2009 04:35:14 PM IST
HYDERABAD: “Vote for Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and take Rs 2,500 worth benefits every month.’’ This is the quintessence of the TDP manifesto to be released before March 15.
The TDP manifesto will ensure that every family in the State gets one benefit or the other worth Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,500 every month.
The TDP politburo meeting, which approved the draft manifesto today, decided to shower Rs 2,500 worth `benefits’ to every family in the State. For this, the party identified three categories -- the poorest of the poor, the poor and the middle class. TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu will announce the scheme in a day or two and also coin a suitable name for it, a politburo member told `Express’.
The TDP is likely to release the draft manifesto in a day or two for the public and release the final manifesto between March 10 and 15 taking into consideration the suggestions given by the public. The TDP has assured food and social security for all.
“The main thrust of our manifesto will be on the the poor, farmers, artisans, youth, women and other oppressed classes. The party will ensure one benefit or the other to every poor family in the State,’’ TDP general secretary K Srihari said.
The TDP had already announced free rice to all the poor, Rs 1,000 dole to unemployed youth, enhancement of amount for social security pensions and free power to tillers and weavers. Naidu, during his 117-day `Meekossam Yatra’ announced 200 promises. Of these, the party identified the assurances which needed financial commitment. After working out the funds required for these schemes, the party estimated that every poor family in the State would get Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,500 worth benefits, if the TDP was voted to power.
The party had already decided to earmark Rs 5,000 crore in the State budget exclusively to meet the finances required to implement the promises made by Naidu.
??Draft manifesto to be released in a day or two
??Final manifesto to be out between March 10 and 15
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