Samajwadi party national president and the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav released 32 page party manifestos for the 2017 state assembly election. His wife and kannauj MP Dimple Yadav and other senior leaders of the party including assembly Speaker and several ministers were also present during the event.
SP promised to give free food grains wheat and rice to the poor people. SP also promised to give a pension of Rs 1,000 to one crore people. The SP has also promised to increase the monthly pension under the Samajwadi Pension scheme to Rs 1000 from Rs 500 per month. SP made no specific promise to the minority as it had made during the 2012 and 2014 manifesto for giving job reservation to the community.
The manifesto, which lays special emphasis on women, who are 50 percent of the electorate, has promised free pressure cooker to all poor women. 50 percent subsidy to the women travelling in the bus of the state transport corporation, free bicycles (election symbol of the party) to all girls studying from class 9 to 12, solar table lamps to meritorious girl students of rural areas, construction of working women hostels in the cities, free e-rickshaws to all women, subsidised rate interest on loan to women, fast track court and women police in every district to deal with the incidents of crime against women.
Besides, the Government will hike the award under Rani laxmi Bai Scheme and give Rs two-lakh gift on the weddings of orphan and handicapped girls and widows, along with a house.
The SP government in order to protect the children from lack of nutrient would provide one litter of desi gee and one kilogram of powder milk to the students of the government primary schools. Besides the family bazaar would be opened at each teshil headquarter and Samajwadi sports schools and old age homes will be set up in every districts.
The manifesto promised setting of `Kisan Kosh’ for providing agriculture inputs like the seed and fertiliser at subsidised rates and the farmers would be given subsidy in the interest on the loan obtained from Kisan Credit Card while now animals would be provided emergency treatment and a separate ambulance services would be introduced for the cattle’s.
In the education sector, all the colleges and universities would be given free Wi-Fi facility and girl students would get special bus service besides Samajwadi Abhinav vidhalaya would be set up.
In the health sector, the Samajwadi Party promised to provide free treatment of all disease to a family who have less than 1.50 lakh income per year while cardiac ambulances would be provided at the block level. In lucknow airport, air ambulance would be made available for shifting of the patients to other places.
For the minorities, the SP has announced to provide skill training to the youths so that they can get good jobs while all financial assistance would be given to all the minority educational institutions. Around one lakh new small business establishments for the minorities would be created during the five year tenure while the SP government will ensure representation as per their population in every sector.
Further strengthening its bond with the Muslim, the SP manifesto promises free e-rickshaws to the poor muslims while the old scheme of ‘ Padhe Betia , Barhe Betia’ would be relaunched. An international level library would be set up at the Mohammd Ali Jauhar University in Rampur while the Shia and Sunni waqf board would be given more powers. A Haj house will also be constructed in Varanasi.
In the infrastructure sector, two new greenfield expressways would be constructed connecting Bundelkhand and Nepal while to promote environment, metro rail will be constructed in Kanpur, Allahabad and Varanasi and Meerut and cycle highway will also be constructed in these cities. All the district headquarters will be connected with four lane highway.
In the power sector the SP poll Manifesto promises 24 hours power in the rural areas and all the non-electrified villages would be electrified. Allahabad, Varanasi, Bareilly, Hindon, Moradabad and Agra would have riverfronts and all the districts will have Upvan parks.
For the lawyers, the SP promised monthly financial help to young lawyers, Rs 10 lakh compensation to the death of any lawyer under the age of 60 years, group housing for their families and construction of lawyer chambers in all the district courts.
SP has also promised hike in the honorarium of chowkidars, homeguards, and PRD jawans, all government vacancies would be filled through transparent manner and all the government services would be made online.