Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has scripted the party’s Uttar Pradesh campaign, and the vision in today’s document clearly comes from those quarters – there is an accent on the needs of the youth and communities like the weavers of UP; the party promise that it will implement a new land acquisition law to ensure farmers and the landless are justly compensated for lost livelihoods and prominently mentions the 4.5 per cent sub quota that the UPA government pushed through for backward Muslims as part of the total 27 per cent quota for backward classes. The manifesto says if voted…
The BJP in its manifesto released in Lucknow on Friday announced to construct a grand temple in Ayodhya. With Sadhvi Uma Bharti, a prominent Ayodhya movement leader, joining UP electoral battle, the BJP has once against gone back to Ram Temple agenda. Releasing the document the state BJP president Surya Pratap Shahi, Uma Bharti, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and other leaders said that the party was committed for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The BJP assailed the Congress, Samajwadi Party, BSP and left parties for opposing construction of Ram temple. On Mayawati’s parks and memorials the party said it would…
The BJP released its election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh, saying the party is opposed to Muslim quota but committed to the welfare of the minority community. It also announced that it would honour its old promise of a Ram Mandir at Ayodhya.
In its manifesto, the party is mainly focusing on education, health, employment and law and order. Key party leaders, including national vice presidents Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Kalraj Mishra, Uma Bharati, and Sudheedra Kulkarni were present at the release. A vision-document for the state was released by the party last week, promising 1.5 crore jobs in the state in the…
BJP’s election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh, addressing the media on the occasion, BJP leader Om Prakash Singh said, “BJP’s manifesto gives due consideration to problems of farmers, dalits, backwards, poor and unemployed youths. We have promised to create five lakh jobs and also Rs 18000 allowance for the unemployed youth of the state if the party manages to form its government in the state. ”
“The manifesto has also promised tablets for high school students for Rs. 1000 and laptops for class XII students for Rs. 5000,” he added.
The elections alliance between the Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) has come under strain following a dispute over Kanth Assembly seat in Moradabad district. Both the Congress and the RLD have declared their respective candidates from the same seat. We had offered Sikri seat to RLD and it was decided that we’ll field our nominee from Kanth, yet the RLD also declared its candidate from there, said the Congress leaders here.
The dispute has also affected the proposed joint rally of Rahul Gandhi and RLD chief Ajit Singh at Meerut scheduled on next Saturday. The rally has been deferred,…
Rajpal Tyagi, who is a former minister in the Mayawati government, will contest now as a Samajwadi candidate from Muradnagar in Ghaziabad. A minister of agriculture, education and research in Mayawati government, Tyagi was dropped in December after the state high court ordered a CBI probe into a fake encounter case. Tyagi was accused of influencing the police to kill his political rival.
SP defended it decision to induct the controversial ex-minister, saying he has not been found guilty yet. The Mulayam Singh led party has given tickets to BSP discards such as Bhagwan Sharma (alias Guddu Pandit) from Dibai in…