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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020: Arvind Kejriwal's 10 'Guarantees' Before Polls

The card has 10 "guarantees", including a promise to reduce air pollution in Delhi by three times.

New Delhi: Ahead of Delhi assembly elections on February 8, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released 'Kejriwal ka Guarantee Card' on Sunday in the presence of other senior party leaders, as part of the election campaign. The card has those points the party will do in the next five years after being re-elected. Stressing its not a manifesto, Kejriwal listed the major promises he and his party intend to deliver if elected to rule the national capital again. The card has 10 "guarantees", including a promise to reduce air pollution in Delhi by three times. Kejriwal said free public travel will be provided to students, while basic facilities for unauthorised colonies in the city along with continuing the ongoing free subsidy on water and electricity has also made its place in CM's "guarantee card". "We will plant more than two crore trees to make Delhi green," the card also read. Watch | Ahead of Delhi polls, Kejriwal's 10 guarantees to public 1st Guarantee: The first 'guarantee' by the Chief Minister is about electricity, promising continuation of 24 hours uninterrupted power supply and 200 units of free electricity for all. "The city will be freed from the web of wires and electricity will reach each household through an underground cable," the guarantee card says. 2ns Guarantee: The Aam Aadmi Party promised 24-hour pure piped drinking water to each house in the next five years and said the scheme of providing 20,000 liters of free water will continue. 3rd Guarantee: The third guarantee of Kejriwal is to give a world-class education facility for each child in Delhi. 4th Guarantee: He also promised better health facilities for all as his fourth guarantee. 5th Guarantee: His fifth guarantee is to have the "biggest and cheapest" transport facility for the city. "More than 11,000 buses and 500-kilometre Metro stretch in the city," he promised. Kejriwal also said on the lines of free bus travel for women, students' travel will also be made free. 6th Guarantee: The sixth guarantee is controlling air pollution in the city. It also includes a promise to clean the Yamuna. 7th Guarantee: While the garbage management is with the MCD, the AAP said it will make the national capital garbage-free in the next five years. 8th Guarantee: CM's eighth guarantee was to make the city safer for women and said the AAP government will also deploy 'Mohalla Marshals'. 9th Guarantee: He promised road, water supply, sewer, CCTV and mohalla clinics for the unauthorised colonies as his ninth guarantee. 10th Guarantee: His last and tenth promise is to give 'pucca' houses to people living in slums under the 'Jahan Jhuggi Wahin Makan' scheme. (with inputs from IANS)

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