Web Portal For Job Seekers, Youth Commission, Toilets For Women: Chirag Paswan Releases LJP Manifesto For Bihar Polls

Starting a web portal where job seekers and employers can connect directly, constituting a Youth Commission, providing separate toilets for women are some major highlights of LJP's election manifesto.

Chirag Paswan with state president and MP Prince Kumar releases party manifesto ahead of Bihar assembly polls. (Image: PTI)

Patna: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan on Wednesday released “Bihar First, Bihari First” - party's election manifesto for the upcoming Bihar assembly polls keeping up his attack on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The release of the manifesto again kick-started LJP's poll campaign following the demise of party founder Ram Vilas Paswan. “Today, with the release of our party’s manifesto for the Bihar assembly polls, I put forward our vision of ‘Bihar 1st Bihari 1st’ which will resolve various problems that the people of Bihar have been facing,” Paswan said. Starting a web portal where job seekers and employers can connect directly, constituting a Youth Commission, providing separate toilets for women in all block headquarters, gram panchayat headquarters and markets, construction of canals for connecting rivers in order to prevent floods and drought are among the main poll promises of the party’s manifesto. With party’s chief concern of the youth leaving the state for further studies and better career opportunities, the manifesto also mentions to setup state-of-the-art medical and engineering institutions, and promises to introduce the “Denmark Model” to boost the dairy industry. Expanding the state industrial phase by setting up food processing units was also one of the key highlights of the LJP’s vision document. Trying to step into the BJP’s boots of Hindu polarization, the manifesto also seeks to develop “spiritual tourism” by promoting Sitamarhi on the lines of Ayodhaya in Uttar Pradesh. Citing ideological difference with the current CM and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leader of the state Nitish Kumar, Paswan parted his way from the NDA last month. While releasing the manifesto, Chirag reiterate that if Nitish Kumar wins the election by mistake, the state would get ruined. After leaving the NDA in Bihar, LJP is contesting on 143 assembly seats fighting edge to edge with Janata Dal United (JDU) candidates. Though Chirag has left no stones unturned in criticising Nitish Kumar, his constant show of admiration and fondness for PM Narendra Modi clearly reflects his hopes to form a government in Bihar with the BJP after the polls.