Overview
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde released a 29-point plan centered on protecting the Marathi manoos, delivering affordable housing, and overhauling urban services.
- Key pledges include constructing 3.5 million affordable homes through redevelopment, making Mumbai pagdi-mukt, freezing annual water tax hikes for five years, and issuing occupation certificates to 20,000 stalled buildings.
- The alliance promises a major public transport push with 50% BEST fare concessions for women and an expanded electric bus fleet targeted at 10,000–12,000 vehicles, alongside water transport and metro additions.
- Fadnavis said an AI tool developed with IIT Bombay to identify illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants has about 60% reliability and that a detention centre is ready, with officials aiming to improve the system over six months.
- Uddhav and Raj Thackeray rallied Marathi voters while alleging assets are being steered to the Adani Group, Congress’s Varsha Gaikwad called the manifesto a bundle of false promises, and strains surfaced as Fadnavis reproached ally Ajit Pawar over campaign attacks.