AGARTALA, March 26 (TIWN): Ahead of Lok Sabha Election, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb broke model code of conduct by announcing 12000 smart phones will be given to the youths soon and fund has been kept for that. Before Assembly Election BJP promised to give 20 lakhs smart phones as all youths were promised to get smart phones. He said, the youths should be graduate. ‘Already Rs. 5 crores have been kept for the smart phones, will be distributed to 12000 youths soon’, said Biplab Deb. This promise was a party of BJP’s pre-Assembly Election promise where Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that all youths in Tripura will get smart phones after Assembly Election. However, criticism erupted as 12000 smart phones’ distribution before election is nothing but breaking mode-code-of-conduct. On the other side, BJP West Tripura candidate Pratima Bhowmik has announced 5000 contractual jobs will be given and more jobs like Anganwadi works will be given once the Lok Sabha Election is ended.

Biplab Deb was addressing to his party workers and said, the previous govt left debts for Biplab Deb Govt and so he is unbale to proceed with the promises. However, the debt was nothing news as the Left Govt worked with deficit budget it was well-known, but the new BJP Govt is presenting zero-deficit budget in exchange of huge public taxes received from public including pensioners.

Earlier, Biplab Deb said that he gave pay matrix with taxpayers’ money but yesterday said, Modi gave that money.

Only 0.32 factor was hiked, depriving DAs for years, Biplab Deb claims 7th Pay Commission scale was given, whereas before the election BJP promised to double the salaries.

The allowances, hikes were promised to give from March 2016, but BJP is playing delay game with Vision Document but CM pitched high that 300 rupees of allowances were hiked. Report says, allowances have been stopped to many beneficiaries leading massive crisis in rural economy along with crisis in MGNREGA mandays.

When 20 lakhs youths were promised to give, Biplab Deb said  5 crores kept the budget to give 12000 youths smart phones.