Live Updates | Haryana, J&K Assembly Elections 2024: Khattar Confident BJP Will Win Polls For Third Time

BJP unveiled its Haryana manifesto, promising aid for women, jobs, housing, and welfare schemes ahead of the October 5 elections.

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Ahead of the Haryana elections scheduled for October 5, the BJP announced its manifesto on Thursday, outlining promises such as monthly financial aid for women, the construction of industrial cities, free medical treatment, government jobs, housing projects, and various welfare schemes targeting different segments of society.

BJP national president JP Nadda unveiled the 'Sankalp Patra' in Rohtak, accompanied by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and state party president Mohan Lal Badoli. Meanwhile, elections began in Jammu and Kashmir on September 18, with the Phase 1 voter turnout indicating strong enthusiasm among the people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also addressed a public rally in Srinagar on Thursday.

20 September 2024

07:53 IST

Haryana Assembly Elections Live: 'Copy-Paste Of Ours...,' Says Bhupinder Singh Hooda

After the BJP released its Haryana Assembly poll manifesto, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda criticised it as copy paste of their manifesto and exaggerated that from 2014 to 2019, the BJP did nothing.

"It is a copy-paste of ours. We have said that theirs are all false promises. Look at our manifestos from 2005 and 2009; we fulfilled all our promises. Look at their manifestos from 2014 and 2019--they did nothing. They made false 'ghoshna patra'. It is a bundle of lies," Hooda said, ANI reported.

07:48 IST

Haryana Assembly Elections Live: Khattar Confident BJP Will Win Polls For Third Time

Union Minister and former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar expressed his confidence in the BJP's victory in the Assembly polls and said, "The people of Haryana have decided that they will form the BJP government for the third time." 

"Our manifesto means to provide facilities to society. Their manifesto means to provide benefits. We do not work by providing benefits, we work by providing facilities so that people's lives become simpler," he said, ANI reported.