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PNS | Bhubaneswar
BJP promises free salt, rice at Re 1, pulses for Rs 5 a kg in Orissa
Describing BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik as a man lacking political honesty, BJP national general secretary Arun Jaitley on Monday launched a scathing attack on him for unilaterally breaking the decade-old alliance with the BJP.

After Sushma Swaraj, it was the turn of Jaitley to rap the BJD for fall of the 11-year-old alliance. Talking to newspersons while releasing the party’s manifesto for the State, he described Patnaik as a “non-ideological personality who speaks for flexibility.”

<b>The manifesto promises rice at Re 1 per kg, dal at Rs 5 per kg while salt will be distributed free to BPL families. The other highlights of the manifesto are: pension scheme for farmers, free power for agriculture, identity cards to 30 lakh daily wage labourers, five medical colleges, roads and power connectivity to every village, Rs 2 lakh insurance to BPL families, etc</b>.

He said the people of the country as well as that of Orissa now needed a determined leader and decisive Government. “Only a BJP-led Government can give this to the nation,” he said, adding that the country at this point cannot afford to have a weak Prime Minister.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->