New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party released its manifesto for the December 7 Rajasthan polls on Tuesday with a promise of up to Rs 5,000 of allowance to the unemployed people. The manifesto was released by Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Prakash Javadekar along with Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, with a claim that the party had met 95 percent of the promises it had made in the 2013 elections. The manifesto focused primarily on the issue of jobs and employment.


Chief Minister Raje while addressing the people said that up to Rs 5,000 per month will be given as unemployment allowance to eligible youths above the age of 21 years.

She also said that every year as many as 30,000 jobs will be given in government sector in the state. She also promised fifty lakh jobs will be created in private sector in next five years in Rajasthan.

Prior to releasing the manifesto, she claimed that BJP had fulfilled 630 of the 665 promises made in the the 2013 Rajasthan manifesto. She said that overall 95% of the electoral promises have been completed.

Polling for Rajasthan Assembly would be held on December 7 and the counting of votes would take place on December 11.

With a series of tweets the party highlighted other electoral promises in the state which include expansion of custom hiring scheme aimed at providing machinery and equipment for agriculture to small and marginal farmers, extending irrigated area in the state, opening of training centres by army recruitment camps  to train the youth 3 months from the due date, aiding residential plots for villagers among other promises.