Yesterday, Janasena party released its vision document at Bhimavaram. Vision document contains 7 ideologies of the party and 12 promises to the people. The manifesto got mixed response from people. While the promises like Free gas cylinders for housewives, direct deposit of cash between Rs.2500-3500 in women’s accounts instead of ration, Kapu reservations got very good response from targeted sections, 33% reservation for women, Sachar committee recommendations, SC reservation sub-division promises didn’t evoke response from people as all the parties have been talking about these promises in every manifesto.
TDP ministers Yanamala and Prathipati Pullarao responded on vision document of Janasena. Yanamala called it a “copy document with no vision” while Pullarao told all the promises mentioned in manifesto have already been fulfilled by TDP government. He also added, Pawan and Jagan can never become chief ministers for the state. While both the ministers dismissed this vision document and announced TDP had already implemented all of them, none of them discussed each promise separately and explained people where and how they have implemented particular promise. For e.g. manifesto promises government old-age homes, hostels for economically backward upper caste students. TDP ministers could have revealed the details of how and where TDP implemented those promises.
But TDP leaders couldn’t counter Janasena manifesto with the statistics and facts as most of the promises were not really implemented by TDP government so far. For e.g. free gas cylinders, abolition of CPS pension system, direct cash transfers – none of these are implemented by TDP even though Prathipati and Yanamala say all these promises are already implemented by TDP. So, it’s clear that TDP leaders don’t want to go deep into the debate of how many of these promises are already fulfilled by TDP because that would put ruling government at disadvantageous position.
