Cong releases manifesto for local body polls

: The Congress manifesto for the coming local body elections was released by District in charge Minister Ramanath Rai at the Congress Party officehere today.
Addressing reporters here, Rai, the state forests and environment minister, said the manifesto contained development schemes Congress planned to implement if elected to power.
The Panchayat Raj system also need to bestrengthened, he added.
Highly beneficial programmes like SarvashikshaBhiyan and MNREGA schemes were implemented during the previous UPA regime, but the BJP government was only giving fake promises, he alleged.
He said if elected, his party would ensure that allrural households had toilets and solar facility besides cooking gas connections.

The Congress had selected deservingcandidates and the party was confident of winning theelections.
Dakshina Kannada district Congress interim President Ibrahim Kodinjaal, MLC Ivan D'Souza, district youth congress President Mithun Rai and others were present.