Tripura: CPI(M) asks BJP to issue ‘report card’ on vision document

Agartala: Tripura CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhary said the BJP government should issue a ‘report card’ on the vision document containing 299 promises made to voters ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.

Assembly elections in Tripura are due early next year. The then Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled the BJP’s vision document ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.

“The BJP government should present a report card based on its vision document instead of a report card on the performance of the BJP-IPFT government during the last 58 months,” he said at the party’s Bhuratali in South Tripura on Wednesday said in a rally.

Recently, the BJP published an assembly constituency-wise report card highlighting the performance of the BJP-led government since 2018.

“The saffron party promised in its vision document that if the party comes to power, it will provide 50,000 jobs in the first year. It has assured that if the party forms the government, the first cabinet will pay back arrears to state government employees.

Chaudhary also criticized the BJP on the issue of social pension, saying that it has promised to provide a social pension of Rs 2000 to selected beneficiaries.

When the Left government lost the elections in February 2018, the number of social pensioners was 4.50 lakh and now it has reduced to 3.18 lakh. The BJP government has deleted the names of around 1.32 lakh pensioners from the list of beneficiaries,” Chaudhary said.

The CPI(M) state secretary said that after spending 58 months in power, the state government started providing social pension to 3.18 lakh beneficiaries.