In Delhi, how AAP sops have echoed as BJP, Cong’s poll theme song after 2013

The Kejriwal-led authorities 1.0 lasted for 49 days. However, riding connected its payment plank marked with pledges for escaped powerfulness and h2o on with mohalla clinics and revamped authorities schools, the AAP swept the 2015 polls – followed by different expanse successful 2020 – forcing the 2 nationalist parties to travel its playbook.

2025 manifestos

For the upcoming polls, the BJP has released 2 manifestos truthful far, some replete with sops aimed not conscionable astatine the mediocre and women but besides circumstantial segments of radical with little incomes. It has pledged a monthly allowance of Rs 2,500 for women. Poor women would get a subsidy of Rs 500 per LPG cylinder, and a escaped cylinder each connected Holi and Diwali. The enactment has besides promised six nutritional kits, positive Rs 21,000 for each large woman.

The BJP has stated it volition proceed with the existing payment schemes of the AAP government. Ayushman Bharat, it says, would beryllium implemented successful Delhi to supply a wellness screen of Rs 5 lakh, added to which would beryllium an further Rs 5 lakh wellness screen by the Delhi government. The enactment has promised a pension of Rs 2,500 a period for each radical aged 60-70, and Rs 3000 for those supra 70, arsenic besides for widows, destitutes and the disabled. It has promised nutrient astatine Rs 5 a sheet successful Atal Canteens to beryllium acceptable up crossed JJ (jhuggi-jhopdi) oregon slum clusters.

In its 2nd manifesto, the BJP has added immoderate much sops. As portion of the Ambedkar Stipend Scheme, the enactment has promised Rs 1,000 a period assistance for Dalit students successful ITIs, accomplishment centres and polytechnics, and escaped acquisition for each needy students from KG to PG successful authorities institutions. It has pledged Rs 15,000 one-time assistance for students preparing for competitory exams, isolated from question outgo and exertion interest reimbursement up to 2 attempts taken.

Reaching retired to car and taxi drivers, the BJP has promised them beingness security of up to Rs 10 lakh, mishap security of up to Rs 5 lakh, and scholarships for their children’s education. For each home help, the enactment has promised beingness security and mishap security with the aforesaid cover, scholarships for children’s acquisition and six-month paid maternity leave.

The Congress has besides travel up with a assortment of sops successful its guarantees, though the enactment is yet to travel retired with a ceremonial manifesto.

While the AAP authorities provides escaped powerfulness up to 200 units, the Congress has promised escaped powerfulness up to 300 units. While the AAP has promised currency transportation of Rs 2,100 a period to mediocre women, the Congress has pledged Rs. 2500 a period for them, matching the BJP’s amount.

The Congress has promised a Rs 25 lakh wellness security screen for each residents of Delhi. The enactment has besides promised state cylinders astatine Rs 500 and escaped ration kits. It would rotation retired the Yuva Udaan Yojana to springiness Rs 8,500 a period to jobless younker for 1 year, isolated from promising them apprenticeship successful industry.

On its part, the AAP has doubled down connected its existing payment schemes and proposals for assorted sections, particularly the mediocre and downtrodden. The enactment has besides travel retired with a manifesto for the mediate people to code their aspirations.

2015 game-changer

The AAP’s propulsion for welfarism started dominating the sermon aft the 2013 Delhi elections. Out of powerfulness and keen to claw back, the Congress started betting connected sops, though anterior to its decision successful the 2013 polls, past CM Dikshit had criticised the AAP for making specified promises.

In the 2015 polls, the Congress promised that powerfulness depletion up to 200 units would beryllium charged astatine Rs 1.50 per portion arsenic compared to Rs 2.8 per portion charged past for the same. The enactment pledged exemption connected each pending h2o and sewer bills.

The BJP promised cleanable h2o for each household, rationalisation of h2o bills, and the mounting up of h2o recycling units for the lodging complexes. Like the AAP, the BJP made aggregate promises for unauthorised and resettlement colonies, proposing to conception assemblage centres connected vacant lands, supply in-situ lodging for slum dwellers, and supply them state connections and subsidised energy lines. It projected to person radical lodging societies from leasehold to freehold. It besides promised dedicated constabulary stations for women successful each district, on with a peculiar women compartment successful the CMO and self-defence classes arsenic portion of schoolhouse curriculum, CCTV cameras and peculiar DTC buses for women.

In the 2020 polls, the crippled of competitory welfarism intensified betwixt the 3 parties, with the AAP proposing to proceed its monthly subsidy schemes for powerfulness – 200 units with 50% subsidy betwixt 200-400 units – and 20,000 litres escaped water. The BJP said these schemes would beryllium continued. The Congress promised escaped energy up to 300 units.

The 3 contenders besides promised steps to curb pollution. While each of them promised to amended nationalist transport, infrastructure and education, the BJP besides pledged escaped electrical scooters for girls from mediocre families upon their enrolment successful colleges.

2013 manifestos

In the 2013 polls, the manifestos of the Congress and the BJP had sought to marque an aspirational pitch. The Congress, which was successful powerfulness successful Delhi and astatine the Centre, projected to acceptable up a “unified bid system” to code the problems of multiplicity of authorities successful Delhi. It promised to conception double-decker flyovers to easiness postulation congestion.

The Congress manifesto besides promised peculiar zones for hawkers. Releasing it, past CM Dikshit said, “NCR should beryllium developed arsenic a communal economical portion (CEZ) wherever determination volition beryllium communal taxation truthful that the full area, not lone for its ain but for the full Northern India, becomes a hub wherever determination are industries, services that yet pb to higher standards of living.”

The Congress promised 30% much seats for evening colleges successful Delhi, a University of Health Sciences with 5 aesculapian colleges, Ladli strategy for assemblage girls with Rs 51,000 further assistance, creches for children of moving women, affordable sanitary napkins for underprivileged women, much nationalist toilets for women, operation of 10 aged property homes, offering the enactment of a 2nd displacement to backstage schools to make 25% much seats successful 3 years, and the mounting up of a cardinal parking authority.

The BJP pledged much nationalist libraries successful the capital. It promised much acold storages, a communal astute paper for each modes of transport, a parking maestro plan, backstage OPD work by experts successful authorities hospitals, and preservation of 85% of seats successful Delhi University for Delhiites. It besides promised a monorail and much metro coaches for Delhi, and single-window clearance for caller businesses.

The past debutant AAP promised mohalla sabhas to instrumentality decisions connected nationalist enactment and attraction of parks and discarded management, a peculiar unit for information of women and children, laws to modulate wages and moving hours for home workers, a unified transport authorization for each modes of nationalist transport, making authorities buildings disabled-friendly, and promotion of star power.

Statehood issue

Interestingly, earlier it stormed to powerfulness astatine the Centre successful 2014, the BJP had ever made a transportation for statehood for Delhi, a Union Territory. The BJP’s 2013 predetermination manifesto promised afloat statehood for Delhi. However, the party’s manifestos since person steered wide of the issue.

Similarly, portion it was successful powerfulness astatine the Centre from 2004 to 2014, the Congress remained soundless implicit the statehood request for Delhi. However, aft losing power, the Congress’s manifesto for the 2015 polls pledged statehood for Delhi.

The AAP’s 2013 manifesto demanded afloat statehood for Delhi, which has been repeated successful its manifestos since.