With No-freebie Chokehold, BJP Devising Ways to Finalise Telangana Manifesto
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: The Telangana state BJP is reportedly finding ways and means to follow the party policy of ‘no freebies’ while at the same time making an Assembly election manifesto that people will embrace, at the same time ensuring it is free of potential criticism from political opponents. The BJP, too, is learnt to have completed one phase of its manifesto exercise with a task force set up by previous state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar discussing the current state of affairs of the BRS government’s performance and the BJP’s policies on various issues. And the BJP has no plans to discontinue the existing welfare programmes and will devise better and targeted delivery of these schemes,” a BJP leader involved in the manifesto process said. The saffron party also plans to streamline welfare programmes for BC communities and has said that its government at the Centre is looking at ways and means to bring tenant farmers into the ambit of farmer welfare schemes.