Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections starting on
March 27, the BJP on Sunday announced that it would be releasing its election
manifesto for the state later in the day.

The main angle likely to be cited in the manifesto would be
development through transparent governance, as per a report by news agency ANI.

Frequenting West Bengal for rallies in recent weeks ahead of
assembly polls, top BJP leadership, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
Home Minister Amit Shah, promised a slew of measures to be taken in the state if
BJP comes to power.

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These included setting up of an independent fishery ministry,
as well as an annual sum of Rs 6,000 for around four lakh fishermen – not unlike
farmers – as a form of economic assistance, as claimed by Amit Shah in one of
his rallies in South 24 Pargana’s Namkhana in February.

Shah had further noted that 33% of government jobs in the state
would be reserved for women, before announcing on Sunday in one of his rallies
that upon coming to power, BJP would implement the seventh pay commission in West
Bengal for all employees under the state government.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on other hand, had announced that
all arrears due to farmers of the state, which amounts to nearly Rs 18,000 per
family under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, would be cleared at once if BJP
came into power. The move was paused under the TMC government for over two
years. Under the scheme, each farmer is expected to get around Rs 6,000 per
annum.

Infrastructure and regional development, too, found prominence
in one of Prime Minister’s poll promises. As part of his February 21 rally in Hooghly’s
Chinsurah, Modi claimed that the task of supplying drinking water to villages,
despite an assistance of Rs 1,700 crores to the state government, were not
implemented properly and that a mere nine lakh out of the estimated two crores
have benefitted from the scheme.

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The election manifesto on Sunday will possibly attempt, as
per ANI, to rebrand the state as a investment destination. Reportedly, a major decision
that might be in the pipeline could be identifying non-arable tracts of land to
set a 2-3-wheeler hub in the state, due to the existence of a prominent market
in both Bangladesh and neighbouring north-eastern states.

Alongside the aforementioned, caste reformation has also
been a promise by the BJP leaders.