The Trinamool Congress unveiled their election manifesto on Wednesday. Among Mamata Banerjee’s ten pledges are rejections of the NRC, CAA, and Uniform Civil Code.
Two days before the first round of the election gets underway, the Trinamool Congress unveiled their election manifesto on Wednesday. In the first phase of voting, Coochbehar, Alipurduar, and Jalpaiguri will have elections. One of the ten pledges made by party convener Mamata Banerjee was the frequently reaffirmed guarantee that Bengal will not have a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), National Register of Citizens (NRC), or Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The manifesto promised to disband the NRC and eliminate the CAA, calling it “botched up.”
Promises
Trinamool officials stated that although there hasn’t been an alliance in the state, Trinamool supports the Congress-led alliance in the Centre and that the pledges will be kept whenever the party joins the INDIA bloc and forms the government there.
Ten pledges in the Trinamool election campaign
- more pay for labourers. Job card holders are guaranteed 100 days of work at a daily rate of ₹400.
- Free housing for all low-income households.
- Ten petrol cylinders are given away to BPL families annually.
- All ration card holders will receive door-step-free ration delivery.
- increased funding for SC/ST students pursuing higher education. A monthly payment of ₹1,000 for old age.
- application of the recommendations made by the Swaminathan Commission.
- fund to stabilise prices for petroleum products.
- Apprenticeship for individuals with diplomas and degrees under 25 years old.
- The NRC will end, and the CAA will be repealed. The nation will not have a Uniform Civil Code.
- programmes like as Kanyashree that provide welfare to females nationwide.
Summarizing manifesto
The manifesto was scheduled to be published in six languages, including Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu, and Nepalese and Santhali language Ol chiki.
Mamata Banerjee was in Assam campaigning when the election manifesto was revealed. Four TMC candidates would be running in the BJP state. In her speech at an election rally, Mamata Banerjee said that the BJP had turned the nation into a “detention camp” and that the CAA and NRC would be eliminated if INDIA were to win the presidency. “They (BJP) turned the entire nation into a prison camp. I have never witnessed an election this dangerous in my life,” Mamata declared, going on to say that if Narendra Modi won a third term in office, there would be no democracy or elections.