Manifestos: Of repeat promises and peddling the undeliverable
Taking a break from the shrill campaign and political name-calling, two of the three key political parties in Delhi - the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party - released their poll manifestos last week. Continuing with its thrice-tested development model, the Congress promised double-decker flyovers, a 100% growth in the city’s GDP, a common economic zone for the National Capital Region and a unified command of governance for Delhi. Its promise of free supply of a minimum of 700 litres of water per day to every household in Delhi also rings hollow in the absence of even supply networks in the city’s unauthorised and illegal settlements. The Congress manifesto claims that its governments could have delivered far more in the last 15 years had they not been “shackled by the present governance structure characterised by multiplicity of authorities”.
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