UP Elections 2022 | Farm Loan Waiver, Jobs For Women, Teachers: Congress Releases Manifesto

Priyanka Gandhi said that the people of Uttar Pradesh need a political system that can bring positive changes in their lives. UP Congress's Unnati Vidhan will prepare the way for this.

Congress released manifesto for UP (Image: @INCIndia)

New Delhi: A day ahead of the first phase of voting in Uttar Pradesh, Congress has released its manifesto for the state. Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi launched the manifesto 'Unnati Vidhan' in Lucknow today. 

The manifesto mainly focused on empowering and uplifting women, farmers and small traders and shared suggestions for the development of the people of Uttar Pradesh.

While releasing the manifesto, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, "The Congress party believes that the people of Uttar Pradesh deserve a government that puts their progress and well-being at the center of its agenda. The people of the state need such a political system that can bring positive changes in their lives. UP Congress's Unnati Vidhan will prepare the way for this."

The Congress manifesto also focused on farmers and students. Here are some key points of Congress' UP manifesto

• Loan waiver to farmers within 10 days if Congress comes to power.
• Electricity bills to be reduced to half and dues of the Covid period will be waived. 
• Financial support of Rs 25,000 to families impacted by Covid 19
• 40% jobs reserved for women
• 12 lakh government job opportunities, 8 lakh jobs for women.
• Rs 5 thousand crore seed startup fund for entrepreneurs
• 50 lakh compensation to kin of Covid related frontline workers
•  2 lakh posts of teachers will be filled, Sanskrit and Urdu teachers to be given opportunities
• Paddy and wheat will be purchased at Rs 2500 per quintal and sugarcane at Rs 400 per quintal. 
• Handicapped women's pension to be increased to Rs 3,000 per month.
• Women police officers are to be given permission to be posted in their hometowns.
• Vidhan Parishad seat to be reserved for ex-army personnel.
• Priyanka Gandhi, "In Baghpat, a merchant and his wife consumed poison and died.  Hence, we want to help such small traders. For this, we will declare small enterprises as clusters and they will be helped by the government."
• Salary of school cooks will be increased to 5000.
• School fees will be controlled, around 2 lakh vacant teaching seats will be filled. Teachers & 'Shiksha Mitra' will be regularized.
• Gram Pradhan Salary to be increased by Rs 6,000 per month
• Cow dung will be bought at Rs 2 per kg which will then be distributed to make vermicompost through self-help groups.
• SC and ST students will be provided free education from KG to PG. Reservation in promotion of government employees belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Kol community will be given tribal status.
• Cases filed against journalists will be abolished and those who are in jail illegally will be released. Five additional seats will be added to the Legislative Council for groups such as craftsmen, weavers, farmers and ex-servicemen.

Meanwhile, campaigning for the first phase of assembly polls in jat-dominated western Uttar Pradesh ended on Tuesday. Eleven districts including Hapur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut,  Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Agra, and Mathura will vote on February 10.

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022 will be held in seven phases - February 10, February 14, February 20,February 25, February 27, March 3, and March 7. The counting of the votes will be done on March 10.