Congress’s poll promises constitutionally impossible, financially improbable: Jaitley

Ahmedabad: The BJP on Friday said the Congress poll manifesto in Gujarat promising quota for Patidars and farm debt waiver was “constitutionally impossible” and “financially improbable” and that the party’s policy of social polarisation would harm the state.

Releasing the BJP’s poll agenda a day before the state votes in the first of the two-phase election on Saturday, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took a dig at the Congress saying its promise of reservation for Patidars was “politics of damage” for Gujarat. “Social polarisation in Gujarat will be politics of damage for the state and if the Congress moves in that path it will cause harm to the state,” Jaitley told reporters.

“One of Congress’ poll promises is constitutionally impossible, which is reservation. It cannot go beyond 50 per cent. The Congress vision is based on constitutional impossibility.”