After going in for `alliance’ at the last moment, Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, the youth scions of Congress and Samajwadi Party respectively, will now finally roll out 10-point Common Minimum Program (CMP) on Saturday. Interestingly, both the Parties are already out with their Party’s manifesto and now when the people are voting in 73 constituencies in the first phase in Western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Congress-SP will announce their CMP, which will be implemented if the alliance come in power.
“Rahul Gandhi will be coming to lucknow to announce the 10-point CMP along with Akhilesh Yadav, here on Saturdaymorning at 10 am”, revealed senior Congress leader, Rajeev Shukla. Addressing a press conference along with former union minister Shree Prakash Jaiswal here on Friday afternoon, Shukla claimed that the proposed joint road show of Rahul and Akhilesh on Friday has been postponed as they failed to get permission. However, he said that the road show will be organised within a week. ``It will be joint responsibility of both Congress and SP to implement the CMP’, added Jaiswal while claiming that he had toured in Western UP and Congress-SP alliance wave is sweeping entire State.
The 10-point CMP is likely to include loan waiver of farmers and reduction of power tariff of farmers, a long time demand of the Congress. law and order and development would also be in the CMP. The CMP might also include common announcements already mentioned in manifestoes of Congress and SP like promises to give free bi-cycle to girls of standard 9 to 12, skill employment mission to provide 50-lakh jobs to youth, 50 per cent reservation for women in the panchayats, Rs 50,000 to Rs one-lakh compensation for girl marriage, distribution of free smartphones, free laptops and cycles to students.
Free school education for every girl child, scholarships for students belonging to economically weaker sections of society, intermediate colleges in every 2500 household and Guru Samman Puraskar for outstanding school teachers are some of the sops. On law and order front, Congress had announced three women police stations in each of the districts, promising to undertake comprehensive police reforms to revitalise preparedness and response measures including adoption of the Prakash Singh report for overhauling and revamping the police administration. legal aid for the indigent persons, full strength to the High Court and video-conferencing hearing in the district courts and will undertake large-scale prison reforms. The manifesto says, Criminal Injuries Compensation Board will be set up to ensure that all the victims of criminal violence of any kind was ensured that their families are statutorily compensated.