Maharashtra: BJP failed to keep several poll promises on farmers’ income, healthcare, says study
The study looked into the party’s manifesto published ahead of the 2019 Assembly polls and analysed the promises made versus the actual performance.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, as part of the Mahayuti alliance government in Maharashtra, failed to keep several promises it made on healthcare and farmers’ welfare in its manifesto for the 2019 Assembly elections, a study has found.
Apart from the BJP, the ruling alliance in the state comprises the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction and the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
The study was conducted by MumbaiVotes.com, which is part of the non-profit civil society collective Informed Voter Project. The collective looked into the BJP’s manifesto published ahead of the 2019 Assembly polls and analysed the promises made versus the actual performance.
In a press release on Wednesday, the collective said that the Hindutva party made five promises about energy, seven promises on labour, 16 on transport and eight on water in 2019.
Less than 50% of the intended goals and benefits were achieved for 74% of the agriculture-related promises in the BJP’s manifesto, the study said. No promise was fully kept, it added.
“The performance with respect to 63% of health-related promises (5 of 8), was less than 60% (or medium performance) of the intended goal/benefits,” it added.
The collective said that 23 of 34, or 68%, of the promises in the manifesto...
