Mumbai: Simply 5 days earlier than the November 20 state Meeting elections, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray launched the social gathering Manifesto, however with a distinction, right here on Friday.
Waving the inaugural copy of the brand new ballot Manifesto, entitled ‘We Will Ship’, Raj Thackeray stated that every one events are promising what they are going to do, however the MNS can also be saying “how” it might fulfil its guarantees, if elected to energy.
In addition to, he launched a booklet on ‘What We Did’ within the practically 19-year-long historical past of the MNS based on March 9, 2006, after Raj Thackeray had stop the (undivided) Shiv Sena.
“A number of factors included in our Manifesto are picked up from our ‘Blueprint for Maharashtra’ launched in September 2014. Ten years later, the problems are the identical, the peoples’ issues stay the identical and we proceed discussing them even at present,” stated Raj Thackeray.
The MNS Manifesto speaks of 4 totally different phases that will cowl all features of the state and its individuals, he added. The primary part will embrace all primary wants, high quality of life, satisfactory meals and water, legislation and order, ladies’s safety, sports activities, childcare, major schooling and jobs.
The second part contains communication, electrical energy, water planning, networking of cities throughout Maharashtra, strong waste administration, sanitation, open areas, setting, and biodiversity.
The third part will embody a state industrial coverage, commerce coverage, administration and industrial management, agriculture, tourism and vocational schooling.
The fourth part will cowl the Marathi delight, identification, promotion of Marathi language, Marathi in day by day use and in enterprise, Marathi within the digital world, and in international enterprise, preservation of historic forts and monuments, plus conventional sports activities, and so on.
Fielding media questions, Raj Thackeray conceded that the ruling MahaYuti’s ‘Ladki Bahin’ scheme of Rs 1,500/month is sweet as the ladies are getting some cash however cautioned that there shouldn’t be hurdles sooner or later.
Taking a swipe at his cousin, former CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray, the MNS chief stated that as a substitute of constructing temples in reminiscence of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, “we’d like extra temples of studying (schools-colleges)”.
In a pointy statement of the prevailing political situation within the state with defections, party-hopping, break-down of events, and so on, Raj Thackeray stated that that is essentially the most uncommon election ever within the state’s historical past — through which the MNS is contesting round 128 seats, the best amongst all political events within the MahaYuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi alliances.
“If somebody is right here at present, he can be there tomorrow… No one is aware of who’s the place or with whom. The individuals ought to keep in mind that those that they voted for final time (2019), the place they’re at present. What is the worth of your vote when somebody’s right here at present and elsewhere tomorrow,” stated an irked Raj Thackeray.
Touching upon the roles disaster confronted by the youth, the MNS chief stated, “There are various employment alternatives out there on this state, however our personal girls and boys are ignorant about them or lack data of tips on how to go about getting jobs”, and therefore ‘outsiders’ bag these jobs depriving our individuals. The reference was to the MNS’ previous campaigns concentrating on ‘outsiders’ principally from north India, who – the social gathering claimed – have been cornering all jobs that the Maharashtrian youth have been entitled to.
He stated that the state was all the time on the prime in international investments and demanded that each time investments come from anyplace on the planet, Maharashtra should get precedence.