The Trinamool Congress released its manifesto for the upcoming Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections here on Monday promising that their aim is to build a “green and clean Kolkata.”
“Our aim is to provide a Green and Clean Kolkata, commoners’ friendly Kolkata. Our path of development is not imposing taxes on people, but social responsibility. Development, peace and secularism comprise our way forward,” TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee told journalists.
Describing the achievements of the TMC-run civic body in the city as “historic”, Mr. Chatterjee said that even the party’s detractors cannot deny it. “From providing Wi-Fi service to health and education in the city under the leadership of Mayor Sovan Chatterjee,” he added.
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In the manifesto, the party also claimed to have improved drinking water facility, roads and solid waste management in the city. It stated that the recently completed drinking water facility at the south-eastern fringes of the city would considerably boost Kolkata’s drinking water supply.
The TMC had given considerable emphasis on highlighting its work for the minority population in the city. The area under KMC has a considerable number of minority voters that would play a key role in deciding which party will control the civic body.
“In terms of minority development, the current KMC board deserves the top spot,” states the TMC manifesto. It states that the TMC run civic body had set up 23 Urdu medium schools, 26 ward health unit and 55 Anganwadi centres. “Computers, scanners and printers had been supplied to 33 minority education institutions,” the TMC claims in its manifesto. It also claimed to have set up 160 toilets in minority-dominated areas of the city.
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Elections of 144 wards of KMC are scheduled on April 18.