Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has released a middle-class centric manifesto for the Delhi polls, demanding the central government to ease income tax and GST rates, increase education and healthcare budgets, and provide free healthcare for senior citizens. Kejriwal criticizes the central government for neglecting the middle class and catering to industrialists.
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