Six days ahead of the Assembly elections, the BJP on Saturday released its manifesto promising Minimum Support Price (MSP) for wheat at Rs 2,700 per quintal and paddy at Rs 3,100 and houses for beneficiaries of the state’s flagship scheme ‘Ladli Bahna’.
The 96-page ‘Sankalp Patra’ (vision document) was released in Bhopal by BJP president JP Nadda along with the party’s state chief VD Sharma, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and other leaders. The state is all set to go to polls on November 17 and counting of votes will be on December 3.
The saffron party has promised free education to girls from poor families up to post-graduation, free education to poor students up to Class 12 and cooking gas cylinder at Rs 450 for beneficiaries of Ladli Bahna and ‘PM Ujjwala’ schemes.
For women, the party has promised houses for beneficiaries of the Ladli Bahna programme and jobs to at least one member of every family or the opportunity for self-employment.
According to the vision document, the party will set up technological institutes in MP along the lines of IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and medical institutions in a similar way to AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences), if the BJP retains power in the state.
It also promises six new expressways and a budget of Rs 3 lakh crore for the empowerment of tribal communities.
Speaking about the manifesto, taking a dig at the Congress, CM Chouhan said that the Congress party was wondering why the BJP released it on ‘Narak Chaturdashi’.
“The Congress doesn’t know mythology and history. It was the day when Krishna freed sisters from Narakasur,” he said, adding the BJP government has tried to fulfil people’s aspirations by implementing all its promises.