Assembly Elections 2023 Updates: JP Nadda Unveils BJP’s Meghalaya 'Sankalp Patra', Promises Free Education for Girls till PG

Assembly Elections LIVE Updates: BJP chief JP Naddalaunched the ‘Sankalp Patra’ or poll manifesto of the saffron party on Wednesday for the upcoming Meghalaya Assembly elections. Political temperatures rise in the northeast states with assembly elections just round the corner. Remember, polling in Tripura will take place on February 16, and Meghalaya and Nagaland will vote on February 27. The counting for all three states will be held on March 2.

HERE ARE THE LATEST UPDATES FROM POLL-BOUND STATES:

• List of BJP’s poll promises for Meghalaya: Programme for the girl child that will provide her a bond worth Rs. 50,000 upon her birth.Free education for women from KG to PG will also be ensured.
  2 free LPG cylinders annually for the beneficiaries of the Ujjawala Yojana
  

  Special Economic Zones will be established for the empowerment of youth

  
  

  Pension for the Senior Citizens will be doubled

  
  

  A scheme that would provide annual financial assistance worth Rs. 3,000 to landless farmers

• Meghalaya Elections: BJP Chief JP Nadda unveils the saffron party’s poll manifesto for Meghalaya Elections.

• Tripura Elections 2023: Preperations are in full swing for the upcoming Tripura elections. 400 companies of central forces will be deployed. As many as 3328 polling booths would be set up for the elections with 269 candidates in the fray.
• Nagaland Is Yet to Elect A Woman MLA; Can These 4 Candidates Change That? Three political outfits— Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Indian National Congress (INC)— have fielded four women candidates. They are Salhoutuonuo Kruse, Rosy Thompson, Kahuli Sema, and Hekani Jakhalu. READ MORE
• Nagaland Elections: The BJP on Tuesday promised a special package for Eastern Nagaland and establish a development board for the holistic development of the region if the party returns to power in the state for the second time in a row.
  

  Hon’ble National President @JPNadda ji formally launches the Election manifesto of BJP Nagaland 2023, in the presence of Hon’ble UM @johnbarlabjp ji, Hon’ble BLP leader @YanthungoPatton ji, @KazhetoKinimi ji, @RiturajSinhaBJP ji, @NalinSKohli ji, pic.twitter.com/3oMD1k2oGa— BJP Nagaland (@BJP4Nagaland) February 14, 2023

  
  

• Last Elections for Tipra Motha Chief: Tipra Motha Chairman Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma on Tuesday announced that he will quit politics after the February 16 Assembly elections and will never seek votes as ‘Bubagra’ (king). Addressing a rally in Tripura on the last day of the campaign, the scion of the former royal family of Tripura said many leaders have deserted him without understanding his feelings.
• BJP President JP Nadda addressed a rally in Shillong, Meghalaya. He hit out at the Trinamool Congress and said, “in Meghalaya - TMC stands for Talabaji, Money laundering and Corruption"

• CNN-News18 Ground Report: Tribal votes and issues are the main focus of Tripura elections this time. Political parties, too, are going all out to woo the community, projecting tribal faces in the campaign. READ MORE
• Tripura Elections: Tipra Motha hints at a post-poll alliance in the state in case of a ‘deadlock’ with no alliance or party to gain majority in the upcoming three-cornered elections. “Tipra Motha may stake claim to form government," its president Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl said.

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