The Bharatiya Janata Party may not go through with earlier poll promises of providing full Statehood to Delhi with the party’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and senior BJP leaders skirting the issue.
Full Statehood demand which was on top of the manifesto released ahead of the 2013 Delhi Assembly elections seems to have been kept aside for the time being.
In fact, the party on Thursday decided that it would not even bring out an election manifesto but would instead put out a vision document this time.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by BJP president Amit Shah during which various aspects relating to the election campaign were discussed.
“We will not release the party’s manifesto for the Delhi Assembly elections this time. Instead, we will come out with a vision document. The party has set a target to win the upcoming polls,” senior party leader and Union Minister Ananth Kumar said after the meeting.
Meanwhile, Ms. Bedi released her thoughts on “engagement and development of Delhi’s youth” as part of a series of her vision for the city titled ‘Kiran’s blueprint’.
Digital Delhi
Among other things it looks at providing a digital Delhi in sync with digital India, entrepreneurial opportunities, incubation centres, scholarships and exchange programmes with domestic and foreign universities, and youth participation in governance.
