On sops shower, BJP in SP footsteps

After the Samajwadi Party , the BJP has also promised to give tablets and laptops free of cost to poor students if the party was voted to power in next month’s assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The party has also promised an annual unemployment allowance of Rs 24,000, which is double of what the SP had promised.

In its manifesto released on Friday, the BJP, gave top priority to the abolition of the 4.5 per cent reservation for Muslim OBCs within the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs and promised to set up a commission, along the lines set up in Bihar, to recommend measures for the development of the financially weaker sections among higher castes.

On the question of the Ram temple, however, the manifesto reiterated its known position that it is committed to removal of all hurdles in the way of construction of the temple. It has also promised setting up of a ‘spiritual Disneyland’ in Mathura and Vrindavan.

The manifesto, which carried the photo of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on the cover, was released by Om Prakash Singh, BJP leader in the state assembly, in the presence of state president Surya Pratap Shahi, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti and national vice-presidents Kalraj Mishra and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

It said that statues of Sant Kabir, Ravidas, Uda Devi, Bijli Pasi, Jhalkari Bai will be installed in the memorials and parks developed by the Mayawati government, the Ganga Expressway project would be scrapped to protect environment around the river, and a law enacted to stop development of expressways along rivers and canals.

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