Amid reports of Samajwadi Party leaders and workers being dissatisfied with the party fielding Anita Saini from Haridwar Parliamentary seat, the SP released its election manifesto for Uttarakhand on Wednesday.
Implementing a uniform system for issuing caste and domicile certificates to residents of Uttarakhand, providing pure drinking water, health, education facilities to residents and employment opportunities to unemployed youths; special package for restarting closed factories, resumption of stalled hydro power projects, developing six major pilgrimage centres to international standards and making Kaliyar a new district of Uttarakhand are the important issues included in the manifesto said, SP election in charge for Uttarakhand, Aslam Khan while interacting with media persons here on Wednesday in the presence of State SP president Dr Satyanarayan Sachan, Party ex-president Vinod Barthwal and other party leaders.
Appealing the voters to exercise their franchise in favour of SP candidates, Khan said that the party's election manifesto has been prepared with the aim of facilitating overall development of Uttarakhand.SP State president Sachan said that in the manifesto, priority has been accorded to redressal of local issues in each constituency. In order to address local issues effectively, elected SP candidates will remain in the constituency during their five year tenure.
Complaint redressal cell at party State office will be established in order to make the elected candidates more responsible towards residents.Regularisation of slum areas and providing ownership right to those living in slums for the last 20 years, allocation of mining slots to unemployed local residents and creation of Himalayan Development Authority based on Dr Ram Manohar lohia’s vision of ‘Himalaya Bachao’ are also included in the manifesto, he added.
Khan said that party has declared Anita Saini as its candidate from Haridwar but considering the increasing discontent against this decision, the candidate from Haridwar will be changed and the new candidate will be declared in two days after consulting party workers.He further said that Saini was never party’s first choice but she might have been fielded because the previous SP candidate Azmal Shahnawaz was undergoing treatment for a serious injury.
However, State president Sachan said that Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had approved Saini's name so she will remain the party candidate from Haridwar.
Meanwhile, Khan further said that as of now, senior SP leaders are busy in public meetings and rallies in Uttar Pradesh but they would reach Uttarakhand for campaigning in the third week of April. Party has already prepared a list of its star campaigners like SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, actor turned politician Jaya Bachchan, Senior SP leaders Mohammad Azam Khan, Naresh Aggarwal and others and the schedule of their rallies’ in Uttarakhand will be declared soon.
The party has already declared its candidates’ name from two lok Sabha seats- Avtar Singh from Nainital parliamentary constituency and Bhagwati Prasad Trikot from Almora, he added.