The party also promises night-cleaning of all the markets, construction of more public toilets The manifesto also contains provision of cow shelters and provision of food for cows.
Questioning the credibility of electronic voting machines (EVMs), Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said there are many ways to tamper with the EVMs and the election commission (EC) is helping the BJP win elections.
After a close-fought battle in Ater, Congress' Hemant Katare emerged victorious by polling 49,382 votes to BJP candidate Arvind Singh Bhadoria's 41,829 votes.
While AAP has promised to waive property tax, BJP has decided not to levy any new tax. "We will strongly resist any such move", said Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari.
Other schemes highlighted in the manifesto include extending the exemption from the need for approval of building plans for plots measuring up to 500 square metres from the present 105 square metres.
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In a statement here, Mr Badal said the result was a referendum on the policies of AAP in Delhi and had set the tone for the complete defeat of AAP in the forthcoming elections to the Delhi municipal corporation.
The manifesto touched some contentious areas such as roads wider than 60 meters that the civic bodies maintained earlier but were taken over by the Delhi government's PWD.
BJP's manifesto for MCD polls lacks provision on property taxes. These results may make the task of AAP even more hard in the upcoming MCD elections. Convenor of the manifesto committee Pravesh Verma said the implementation of the promised schemes would be monitored twice a year by the State leadership. "The BJP talks of Digital India, but the websites of the corporations have been under construction for 13 years and Rs 12 crore has already been spent", he said. They have turned Delhi into a big dustbin.
Autorickshaw and taxi stands with restrooms for drivers and issuance of licences to hawkers and street vendors under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 have also been promised. Its decisive measures in providing better health and educational facilities to the poor - Delhi's government hospitals are dispensing medicines and most diagnostic tests free and Delhi's government primary schools are witnessing better attendance of teachers and better facilities for the students, like uniforms, textbooks and quality midday meals (all these have become a "new normal" in Delhi) - can not be wished away. "A coterie is working at the top which is taking all the decisions by talking to each other, no worker, mid level party worker is included in the decision making process", an AAP functionary said.
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