: Promising to bring back the ‘pride and joy of staying in Kolkata’, the West Bengal unit of the BJP released its manifesto for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls here on Thursday.
Releasing the manifesto, State BJP president Rahul Sinha said the manifesto, available on the party website in English, Bengali and Hindi, would be made available for suggestions from the public for three days. “We will incorporate the suggestions and release the final manifesto in four to five days,” Mr. Sinha said.
Besides assuring potable water ‘both in quantity and quality’, the manifesto said in the interim, the KMC would provide ‘suitable concessions in rates and taxes’ to educational institutions, old age homes, hospitals that set up their own water filter plants in accordance with standards laid down by the Corporation, while ensuring filtered water to all households conforming to WHO standards.
Mocking Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s ambition of transforming Kolkata into London, Mr. Sinha said that the city’s roads would undergo a complete makeover.
“Widespread unemployment has pushed youths into taking up hawking as a profession which is why pavements are overflowing with hawkers and inconveniencing pedestrians. We will build a separate complex for hawkers and identify specific corners in some roads where hawkers will be allowed at a certain time,” he said.
Promising a corruption-free KMC, Mr. Sinha said the online filing of taxes would be given importance to rid the Corporation of bribes and corruption.
