Delhi Election Trail 2015: Day 5 February 5, 2015 by Deepak Parvatiyar This article was published in mapsofindia.com on 5 th February 2015 Is AAP’s 70-point election manifesto an actionable plan or a bundle of promises? Remember the BJP’s repeated yet unfulfilled promises of abrogating Article 370, introducing Uniform Civil Code and constructing Ram Temple in Ayodhya in its successive poll manifestos? Similarly, what about the Congress’ promises of alleviating poverty, curbing violence against women and so on, in its poll manifestos? With elections, comes a flurry of promises – to curb inflation, fast track development, provide pucca houses to slum dwellers, reduce the power and water tariff, take steps for women’s safety and offer better provisions for education. Yet, they remain unrealised. Therefore, there is little surprise that such promises are overlapping in all manifestos even now. With every political party harping on the same unfulfilled promises, po...
