BJP's Manifesto For Gujarat Polls Promises Anti-Radicalisation Cell, Law For Property Damage: Top Points

The BJP manifesto for Gujarat Assembly polls promises 20 lakh jobs for youth along with Uniform Civil Code, anti-radicalisation cell, and Recovery of Damages of Public and Private Properties Act.

From left - Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, BJP National President J.P. Nadda, and State party chief C.R. Patil during the release of the party manifesto for Gujarat Assembly elections, in Gandhinagar, Saturday. ( Image Source :PTI )

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, BJP national president JP Nadda and state party president CR Patil on Friday released the BJP manifesto for Gujarat Assembly polls promising 20 lakh jobs for youth in a span of five years along with Uniform Civil Code, anti-radicalisation cell, and Recovery of Damages of Public and Private Properties Act.

Speaking at the event, BJP national president JP Nadda said, "We will ensure the complete implementation of the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code Committee’s recommendation."

"We will create an anti-radicalisation cell to identify and eliminate potential threats, and sleeper cells of the terrorist organisations and anti-India forces," he added, as quoted by news agency ANI.

The BJP President said that if voted to power again, the party will also make a law pertaining to damages to public property. The law will be regarding recovery from anti-social elements who damage public property and attack private property.

"For the progress of Gujarat, we will make Gujarat's economy equal to that of a 1 trillion economy by making the state a foreign direct investment destination," Nadda said.

Following are some of the most important promises made by the party:

• Ensure the complete implementation of the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code Committee’s recommendation.
• Create an Anti-Radicalisation Cell to identify and eliminate potential threats, and sleeper cells of the terrorist organisations and anti-India forces.
• Enact the Gujarat Recovery of Damages of Public and Private Properties Act to recover damages done to public and private properties by anti-social elements during riots, violent protests, unrest, etc.
• Provide 20 lakh employment opportunities to the youth of Gujarat in the next 5 years.
• Create more than 1 lakh government jobs for women in the next 5 years.
• Convert 20,000 government schools into Schools of Excellence with a budget of Rs 10,000 crore in the next 5 years.
• Ensure that every citizen in Gujarat has a pucca house and ensure 100% implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
• Family Card Yojana launch, which will enable every family to avail benefits of all State Government-run welfare schemes.
• Establish 4 Gujarat Institute of Technology (GIT) on the lines of IITs as Centres of Excellence in the areas of Green Energy, Semiconductors, fintech, and Aerospace.
• Investments of Rs 10,000 crore under Gujarat Krishi Infrastructure Kosh to develop a holistic system of Khedut Mandis, modern APMCs, sorting and grading units, cold chains, warehouses, primary processing centres, etc.
• Investments of Rs 25,000 crore to expand the existing irrigation network through projects such as Sujalam Sufalam, SAUNI, lift irrigation projects, micro irrigation, drip irrigation and other systems across Gujarat.
• Invest Rs 1,000 crore to renovate, expand and promote temples, following the transformation model of Somnath, Ambaji, and Pavagadh.
• Invest Rs 2,500 crore to promote Gujarat's culture at the national and international levels by building museums, centres for performing arts, Sardar Patel Bhawan, etc.
• Set up two Sea Food Parks (one each in South Gujarat and Saurashtra), build India’s first Blue Economy Industrial Corridor, and strengthen fishing-related infrastructure (jetties, cold supply chain and mechanisation of boats). 
• Double the annual cap under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (Ayushman Bharat) from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh per family and ensure free-of-cost medical treatment.
• Launch Gujarat Olympics Mission and create world-class sports infrastructure with an aim to host the Olympic Games in 2036.
• Initiate mobile delivery of ration across all 56 Tribal Sub Plan Talukas.
• Spend Rs 1 lakh crore under the Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana 2.0 for the all-round socio-economic development of tribals.
• State-of-the-art healthcare facilities in tribal areas by setting up 8 medical colleges, and 10 nursing/para-medical colleges.
• Provide free-of-cost, quality education to all female students from KG to PG.
• Start Sharda Mehta Yojana to provide free two-wheelers (electric scooters) to meritorious college-going female students from financially weak households.
• Provide free bus travel to female senior citizens in the state.
• Shramik Credit Cards for labourers to provide them with collateral-free loans up to Rs 2 lakh.
• Provide a one-time incentive grant of Rs 50,000 for OBC/ST/SC/EWS students who get into a NIRF top-ranking institution in India or a top-ranking world institution for higher education.
• Set up 25 Birsa Munda Gyan Shakti Residential Schools to provide the best residential schooling facilities to 75,000 meritorious students from the tribal community.
• Spend over Rs 1,000 crore on Police Force modernisation to strengthen the physical infrastructure, purchasing best-in-class weapons and equipment, and building India’s most robust IT infrastructure.
• Make Gujarat a $1 trillion economy by maintaining its pole position in manufacturing, focusing on services and investing in human and institutional capacity-building for new-age industries. Attract Rs 5 lakh crore foreign investment and make Gujarat the Defence and Aviation Manufacturing Hub of India.
• Develop the first-of-its-kind Parikrama Path of 3,000 km encircling the whole state with 4-6 lane roads/ highways by constructing a South Eastern Peripheral Highway and North Western Peripheral Highway.
• Develop Gujarat Link Corridors by completing the missing links and augmenting the existing highways through the East-West Corridor connecting Dahod with Porbandar and North-South Corridor connecting Palanpur to Valsad.
• Develop a Saurashtra Express Highway Grid to provide seamless connectivity between important economic hubs and national highways.
• Ensure time-bound completion of Gandhinagar and Surat Metro, and kick-start work on Saurashtra (Rajkot) and Central Gujarat’s (Vadodara) first metro rail service.
• Build a Devbhumi Dwarka Corridor to establish it as western India’s biggest spiritual centre, comprising of the World's tallest Shree Krishna statue, a 3D immersive Bhagwat Gita experience zone and a viewing gallery for the lost city of Dwarka.

The state has been a BJP stronghold as the party has retained power for the last 27 years here with Narendra Modi being its longest-serving chief minister.

Gujarat will witness polling in two phases on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes for both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will take place on December 8.