BJP lines up sops to woo Rajasthan voters

New Delhi: Doubling Kisan Nidhi to ₹12,000 per year, LPG cylinder at ₹450, women's police station in every district and free education from primary to post-graduation for girls are some of the key promises made in the BJP manifesto for Rajasthan, which was released by party chief JP Nadda in the presence of former chief minister Vasundhara Raje and state unit president CP Joshi, among others, in Jaipur on Thursday. The saffron party has also assured that all scams and corruption cases will be probed and the guilty punished.

Speaking to reporters after the manifesto release, Nadda said the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan has failed on five fronts-it has engaged in corruption, failed to protect women, ignored the interest of farmers, laid atrocities on the poor, and played with the future of the youth (a reference to the government jobs paper leaks).

The manifesto states every police station in the state will have a women's helpdesk while a police 'anti-Romeo squad' will be formed to check street sexual harassment and stalking of women.


Girls will be provided free education from KG classes to PG and girls who perform well in 10+2 exams will be given a scooty.

BJP has sought to woo the youth with the promise of creating 250,000 government jobs in the next five years. The tourism sector, a big revenue generator for the state and a source of employment, will get a corpus fund of ₹2,000 crore if BJP comes to power.