Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Some candidates offer to renounce their salaries

JAIPUR: Political parties have already come up with their election manifesto, but candidates are going one step ahead by showering promises ranging from resolving common problems to giving their salaries for charity.


Candidates are taking all possible measures to lure voters. They are even ready to give up their

salary

as MLA, after winning assembly elections.

“An MLA gets Rs75 lakh as salary in five years during his tenure. If I win the assembly election, I will donate my salary for charitable trust or I will spend it for the welfare of the people of my constituency,” said Mukesh Goyal, BJP candidate from Kotputli, at a public meeting held during BJP national president Amit Shah’s rally held on Thursday.

Goyal emphasised that the salary and allowance he will get as an MLA, belong to the people of his constituency and should be spent on the welfare of the people. Vidhyadhar Nagar’s Congress candidate Sitaram Agarwal too promised voters of his area that he will spend his salary on people and will not keep the salary in his pocket if he wins in the assembly elections to be held on December 7.

During campaigning in Vidhyadhar Nagar at a public gathering recently, Agarwal said while addressing people, that he has entered into politics with a sole aim of serving people. “I will not keep the salary which is given to an MLA every month, in my pocket. If I win the election, I will spend it on the people who actually require it, in my constituency,” he had said. He emphasised that he is an industrialist and an owner of five factories. “I am not joining politics to earn money. If I have to earn more money, I can set up two more factories,” he had said.