Thiruvananthapuram, April 1 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday promised two free LPG cylinders per year -- one each during Onam and Christmas -- for poor households, a Bhakshya-Arogya Suraksha card with a monthly recharge of Rs.2,500 for women from poor and BPL households and an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as it released a 16-point manifesto for the April 9 assembly elections.

The manifesto, unveiled by BJP national president Nitin Nabin in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram, has been branded as a 2026-31 blueprint for "vikasita Keralam" (developed Kerala), also promised monthly social welfare pension of Rs.3,000, Rs.20,000 litres of free water for each household and a new high-speed railway network.

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