Sankalp Patra wants highest national award for Phule also, promises 1 crore jobs
The bestowal of “Bharat Ratna” upon social reformers Jyotiba Phule, Savitribai Phhule, and freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, creation of one crore jobs in five years, making Maharashtra “drought-free” in five years and Rs 5 lakh crore investment in infrastructure sector are among the promises made by the ruling BJP in its manifesto for the State Assembly polls.
In its manifesto “Sankalp Patra” released three days after its ally Shiv Sena released its manifesto “Vachan Patra”, the BJP has also promised houses to all the homeless in the State by 2022, pure drinking water to each household, to set up a grid for Marathwada to solve water problem in the region and to provide job opportunities to one crore women by bringing them under “Mahila Bachat Ghatak” scheme.
Releasing “Sankalp Patra” along with the party’s working president JP Nadda, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, “On our return to power in the State, we will recommend to the Centre a proposal to bestow ‘Bharat Ratna’ upon social reformers Jyotiba Phule, Savitribai Phhule, and freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. These three great leaders deserved to be honoured with Bharat Ratna as they spent their whole lives for social activities. The Shiv Sena has also for some time been demanding bestowal of Bharart Ratna upon Veer Savarkar.”
The promise to bestow Bharat Ratna upon the Phule couple and Veer Savarkar is being seen as a move to attract Dalit and Hindu votes.
“The focus of our manifesto is three-fold — to address drought, increase availability of water and employment,” the CM said.
The project to link various rivers, uninterrupted power supply, education, economic development, health, agriculture, social welfare, air transport, port development, water supply for irrigation and rural development are the BJP’s other focus areas.
In its “Sankalp Patra”, the BJP also promised to seek financial assistance from the Centre to invest to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore on infrastructural facilities, to generate solar energy in next five years that is enough to supply electricity to farmers for 12 hours in a day and to set up a solar power grid.
In a first of its kind imitative, the BJP has promised to set up an independent authority to repair all kinds of roads. The ruling party said it would connect the entire Maharashtra by internet through Bharat Net and Maha Net.
“We will register all kinds of labourers at one place and bring them under the ambit of the social security... We will undertake a special rehabilitation programme for the retired soldiers, families of martyred soldiers and officials who died during the call of duty,” the BJP manifesto said.