Congress on Thursday released its manifesto for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, as the party prepares to contest in 28 constituencies. The document was unveiled in Chennai by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar.
Titled “Let us develop Tamil Nadu”, the 36-page manifesto is organised under 10 themes. Among the key commitments is a push to fill three lakh vacant government posts, including 40,000 vacancies in the police department.
On welfare measures, the party promised a monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 per ration card, and steps to ensure a Rs 2,000 pension for senior citizens and persons with disabilities. It also proposed an annual Rs 6,000 support for landless farmers who were excluded from the PM-Kisan assistance.
In education and health, Congress said it would set up special schools in all six zones and introduce AI-assisted learning in government schools, along with AI training for teachers. The manifesto also includes plans for mental health hospitals in all 38 districts, training for over 10,000 health workers in mental health first aid, and strengthening the primary health centre network.
Other proposals include supplying upgraded quality rice through all ration shops, ensuring 24x7 clean drinking water in major cities, affordable housing with faster land patta issuance, restoring and modernising irrigation canals, creating a board for marketing agricultural produce, developing Tamil Nadu as a global spiritual tourism hub, and targets such as a rabies-death-free Tamil Nadu by 2030 and 100% dog vaccination by 2030. The party also reiterated that the two-language policy would be followed in the state.
