Ahead of the Indore municipal corporation elections which are tentatively slated for January next year, the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Friday released its ‘Nagar Sankalp Patra-2014’ (election manifesto) promising a clean, beautiful and developed Indore to the city people.
Releasing the manifesto at the BJP office here on Friday, Madhya Pradesh BJP vice-president Usha Thakur said the BJP in its manifesto has pledged to provide a clean, beautiful and developed Indore and it will stand on its commitment once elected to power in the ensuing civic bodies elections in the state.
She said as one third of state’s population lives in urban areas, the state government is committed to provide all necessary basic amenities to the people living in urban areas. The BJP leader said the State Government had already sanctioned a sum of Rs37,000 crore in its budget for infrastructural development, of which Rs6,000 crore has been earmarked for the development of urban areas in the state.
In the Rssankalp patra-2014’ which was released in Indore and other cities, towns of the state simultaneously, the BJP reiterated its promise to start survey for light metro in Indore along other three cities of the state vis-a-vas Bhopal, Jabalpur and Gwalior. Besides, it also promises to construct flyovers in the city to ease out traffic congestion, make facilities for online payment of taxes and provide basic amenities like road, water and electricity in illegal colonies of the city.
Senior party MlAs Mahendra Hardia, Ramesh Mendola, Usha Thakur, Indore city BJP president Kailash Sharma, BJP state Media incharge Govind Malu, Anju Makhija among others were present on the occasion.