The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today released its election manifesto for the UP polls—“Lok Kalyan Patra 2022”—with the focus being on farmers, women and youth.
Union home minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched the manifesto during a “jan sabha” in Lucknow’s Indira Gandhi Pratishthan. The party also released “Karke Dikhaaya Hai” song on the occasion.
The key takeaways from the BJP manifesto are:
- Double the amount of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN) scheme for landless farmers.
- Scooty for girl students and working women. It also promises free coaching to female students preparing for UPSC and PSC;
- Keeping the online education system in view, the saffron party has promised laptops and other required gadgets for students, and to generate employment for the youth of the state and give at least one job to every household.
- Under the Ujjwala Yojna, the party has also promised to give three free cylinders every year to the consumers.
While promising to fulfil everything mentioned in the manifesto, the Chief Minister stressed upon the state to be curfew-free, empowering women and other development works.
“Over 700 riots between 2012-2017 in SP rule, there was curfew and riots in UP. Now Kanwar yatra takes place in state and not riots,” added UP CM Yogi Adityanath.
Further listing development works carried out by the BJP, CM Yogi mentioned cited the following examples:
- 33 medical colleges made in last 5 years with improvement in health infrastructure
- Various link expressways under construction
- Only 2 airports were operational in UP in 70 years, in last 5 years, number of airports in UP have gone up to 9
- UP- 1st state in country to have 5 international airports
- Metros helping connectivity in the state
- Ayodhya, Kashi Vishwanath, Mathura, Vrindavan and other pilgrimage places developed by BJP
“We fulfilled 92% of our promises, that is why people in other states too vote for BJP,” added Union Minister Amit Shah.
