bengaluru this weekend expect many a storm in a teacup as the new cabinet led by chief minister siddaramaiah is set to hold a crucial cabinet meeting on friday at 11am the dates and various modalities are expected to be announced for implementation of the five promises made by the congress in the runup to the recent assembly elections over the past few days the cm has held two rounds of meetings with the heads of government departments concerned and got a report on the ways and means to implement the guarantees and their financial implicationssiddaramaiah had chaired a meeting of his ministers on wednesday to seek their views on the issueaccording to a rough estimate the government needs rs 50000 crore annually to implement all the five poll guarantees that include a monthly grant of rs 2000 for the woman head of each household a monthly grant of rs 3000 to each unemployed graduate in the state 200 units of free power to all households free travel for women on staterun buses and 10 kg of free rice per person in bpl familiesto begin with the state government may opt to roll out the last three guarantees immediately while pushing the implementation of the other two the gruha lakshmi and yuva nidhi schemes to august or september as there is still some confusion on who should be considered as a woman head of the family and who makes the cut as an unemployed graduatethat implementation of these two schemes require huge funds and hence the delay in fulfilling the promise is a nobrainerthe state government has been under a lot of pressure from the public and the opposition parties to implement the poll guarantees since congress had said that it would roll out the schemes to fulfil the promises on the very first day of assuming officethe party had also said these promises would be implemented without any ridersnow that it has been more than a fortnight since siddaramaiah took oath as cm people have started questioning the delay in rollout there have also been instances where women passengers have refused to buy tickets on staterun buses and villagers refusing to clear their electricity bills citing the congress poll promise s