Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, Feb 8: Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday released the Samajwadi Party’s manifesto for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. The manifesto is called ‘Samajwadi Vachan Patra’ with the tag line–‘Satya Vachan, atoot vaada’.
“I remember that when in 2012 the SP had released its manifesto and then when we formed the government, we held a meeting of all departments related to various promises and fulfilled all those promises,” said Akhilesh Yadav addressing a press conference.
“With ‘Satya vachan, atoot vaada’ we are going to people with this document as manifesto for 2022,” he added.
Launching the manifesto, he announced that the MSP for all crops will be given and sugarcane farmers will get payments in 15 day and will form a corpus for this if required.
“All farmers will get free power for irrigation, interest-free loan, insurance, and pension arrangments will be made,” he said.
He also said that an urban employment guarantee Act will be brought on the lines of MGNREGS.
In addition to this, he also made major announcements for women. The former chief minister said there would 33 per cent reservation to women in government jobs, including in the police departamnt. SP also promised free education for girls from primary classes till post-graduation in its manifesto.
Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh was released on Tuesday by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Notably, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be held from February 10 onwards in seven phases. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
