By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to make Meghalaya a progressive, prosperous and peaceful State while ensuring that everyone will be taken on board and no one is left behind.
Releasing the party’s election manifesto here on Wednesday, BJP leader Kiren Rijiju said that for the past five years, the Congress has failed to live up to the people’s expectation.
“There is rampant corruption at every level of governance and there are brazen efforts to shield the corrupt officials as is evident from the recent scam in the appointment of LP school teachers when the government remained silent spectators imposing no actions on the accused,” he said.
If voted to power, the BJP promises a government that is free from every trace of corruption at every level of administration, and that the voice of the people will be heard and honoured at every level of decision making and their execution, Rijiju said.
“The BJP is concerned about ensuring that all schemes, policies and programmes touch each and every citizen. People from all spheres of life will be covered and their voice will be heard and no one will be left behind,” the party leader asserted.
The manifesto also featured introduction of scheme for free treatment and distribution of medicine for those not entitled to reimbursement of cost of hospitalization or belonging to the BPL section and introduction of health insurance schemes.
The party also promised to address the problem of water supply and electricity, revamping the Meghalaya Urban Development Authority and involving professional or personnel trained in town planning and architecture, creating an interface between the authority and the public, improving life in rural areas by opening schools and colleges, town halls and community centres and to bring forth a housing policy to cater to the lower income groups.
The other promises include women and child welfare, employment and poverty alleviation, ensuring economic development and resource generation, human resource development, creating the foundation for growth-infrastructure, good governance and law and order.