MVA issues five guarantees for Maharashtra elections, know the Sankalp Patra?

Mahavikas Aghadi has released its manifesto for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena (UTB) President Uddhav Thackeray and NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar released the MVA manifesto during a program.

After seat sharing between MVA and Mahayuti, election promises have also started being issued. In this sequence, MVA has issued its five guarantees on Wednesday. These include financial assistance to women per month, loan waiver of farmers, financial assistance to the unemployed, health insurance for families.

Mahavikas Aghadi made 5 big promises

While manifesto states that people will be given health insurance of Rs 25 lakh, women will be given three thousand rupees every month and along with the guarantee of equality, caste census will be done, and it will be increased by removing 50 percent reservation. Farmers will be given loan waiver of up to three lakh rupees and an incentive amount of fifty thousand for repaying the loan regularly.

These are the five guarantees of MVA

Mahalakshmi: Women will get financial assistance of Rs 3000 per month and free transportation in government buses.

Agricultural Prosperity: Agricultural loans up to Rs 3 lakh of all farmers across Maharashtra will be waived. Apart from this, incentive payments of Rs 50,000 will be provided to farmers.

Yuvakanna Shabd: Every unemployed youth of Maharashtra will be provided monthly assistance of Rs 4,000.

Kutumb Raksha: Affordable health insurance of Rs 25 lakh will be provided to all families in Maharashtra. Essential medicines will be provided free of cost in government hospitals across Maharashtra.

Equality Promise: Socio-economic caste census will be conducted in Maharashtra to protect marginalized communities and secure their rights. After the caste census, we will remove the 50% cap on reservation.

Mainly two alliances face to face in the fray

After the 2019 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Congress, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar's NCP together formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi. This time in the Maharashtra elections, the contest will be seen between two alliances instead of parties. The ruling Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi will be face to face. Actually, the Mahayuti includes BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led NCP. In this assembly election, the opposition alliance (MVA) would like to repeat its performance of the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, in which it had gained an edge over the Mahayuti.

Promise to complete Vision Maharashtra 2029 within 100 days

In fact, the leaders of the parties involved in the Mahavikas Aghadi - Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar) etc. organized Maharashtra Swabhiman Sabha. Big leaders of all the parties involved in the alliance participated in it. Rahul Gandhi openly targeted the BJP and the Shinde government from the stage. MVA leaders released their manifesto for the elections during this time.

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Election to be held on November 20

Voting will be held on November 20 for 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra. In the last election, BJP got 105, Shiv Sena 56, NCP 54 and Congress 44 seats. However, after the election, Shiv Sena broke away from NDA and formed the government with NCP-Congress. In June 2022, there was an internal strife in Shiv Sena.

After this Eknath Shinde broke away 40 MLAs of the party. Eknath Shinde became the Chief Minister with the support of BJP. Now Shivs The party has split into two factions. Sharad Pawar's NCP has also split into two factions - Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar.