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BJP’s manifesto is next State budget: Yeddyurappa

MOODBIDRI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s election manifesto is a blueprint of the next State budget, former Chief Minister and party’s chief ministerial candidate B.S. Yeddyurappa has said.

“The BJP will incorporate various welfare schemes for economically weaker and backward sections of society. We will take necessary steps to implement them,” he said.

Addressing an election rally here on Saturday, Mr. Yeddyurappa said he as the Finance Minister had implemented all that he had promised and would strive to do so in future. The BJP, if voted to power, would provide rice at Rs. 2 a kilogram to the poor and an incentive of Rs. 2 a litre of milk to farmers involved in dairying.

Holding out a bonanza for the rural homeless poor, he said the party would construct 15 lakh houses for them over the next five years.

Many beneficiaries of Ashraya housing scheme could not pay the subsidy part of the unit cost in the past. The BJP was committed to waiving the Rs. 650 crore owed by them to the Government.

On the reported comments by former Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily on the Ramjanmabhoomi issue, Mr. Yeddyurappa challenged him to an open discussion on the facts pertaining to the case. “The BJP has decided to file a case with the Election Commission of India against Mr. Moily for his remarks,” Mr. Yeddyurappa said while exhorting devotees of Rama to take cognisance of such utterances.rging the party cadre to make a note of grievances of people during their door-to-door canvassing, Mr. Yeddyurappa said he would address them if the party was voted to power.

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