Lucknow: Farmers, Women and Adolescents emerged as the main focus area of Manifesto the Samajwadi Party who promised a reservation of 33% for women in all government work, including police services, and made farmers debt-free in 2025, reported Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui.
List of promises include 300 free electricity units for domestic users, making 22 lakh fields and job opportunities in the IT sector, free education for girls from KG to PG (TK for post-graduation), among others.
Manifesto 88 pages, divided into 22 chapters, have been titled as ‘Samjwadi Vachan Patra’ (Samajwadi Promessory Note) and has the most complete part of farmers who cover nine pages.
Mourning the demands of the farmers they emphasize repeatedly during protests against agriculture laws, SP promises that the minimum support price (MSP) for all plants will be calculated at the total cost of plants plus 50% of it as a profit – formulas that are reduced and approved by the National Commission Farmers formed based on the leadership of MS Swaminathan Agricultural Scientists.
This chapter is related to rural infrastructure funds and credit, micro financing and establishes the farmer’s commission to put a road map to make farmers free from all debts in 2025.
Vachan Patra also promised to improve farmer insurance up to RS 10 lakh and reduced stamp duty to 2% In the case of transferring agricultural land.
It also promises the Corpus fund setting of Rs 10,000 Crore for the payment of sugar cane purchases within 15 procurement days.
To deal with unemployment, Manifesto promises guarantees of urban work acting based on the Mnrega line for urban workers, including women, until when they take regular work.
Manifesto also promises the government’s employment policy for charging government vacancies regularly and timebound, in addition to creating 22 lakh jobs and employment opportunities in the IT sector.
This chapter also promises filling all vacancies in the police department within one year and the time of recruiting nursing staff and paramedics.
Referring to the memory of ordinary people struggling for health services during a pandemic, Manifesto promises a three-fold increase in allocation for spending on health care facilities even if it means taking it to around 10% of the state budget.
Other promises in ‘Vacan Patra’ include treatment without cash, establishing a state pandemic assistance agency, improving the level of medical tests, preparing one supplespect hospital in each division, an icus with a ventilator in each district hospital and the heart emergency ambulance.
In what is seen as a counter to focus on the Congress on women’s empowerment where it has promised a 50% reservation to women if choosing power, SP has announced 33% of reservations to women in all government work and establishing all women force.
On the educational front, the Jamajwadi party has promised a laptop distribution to all students after they passed 12th grade and free education to girls from the post-graduation pole.
Promising zero tolerance against cruel crimes against women, children, and hatred of crime and minority, Manifesto talks about preparing a unit to monitor the crime.
For micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), Manifesto promises the state industry security force, single window / eastern single roof and state microfinance banks for MSMEs.
Under the development of urban, the party promised to introduce metro services in Agra, Prayagraj, Kanpur, and other cities in 2024.
Manifesto also talked about providing ‘Samjwadi Thaali’ at Rs 10 for the poor, and food ingredients for children .
The more economically weaker part.
For minority welfare, the Jamajwadi Party Manifesto promises the implementation of the prevention policy and racial crime assistance to provide protection in minority, women and dalit treasures.
The policy will take care of victims of racial crimes and communal riots.
Manifesto also promised to focus on English and make efforts to provide cultural identity to Urdu and Hindi, establishing funds to sponsor students to learn abroad after they clean up competitions, establish ways of minority income and well-being to recommend ways to improve standards Life and the provisions of RS 18,000 annual retirement to skilled workers in the BPL category (below the poverty line).
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