INDIA Alliance Unveils 'Nyay-Patra' Manifesto for Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024
For the Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024, the alliance of opposition parties, INDIA, jointly released its manifesto on Tuesday evening. Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, Jharkhand CM and JMM Working President Hemant Soren, along with the leaders of other parties of the alliance, have named this manifesto as Nyay-Patra with ‘One Vote, Seven Guarantees'.
The INDIA alliance has promised to implement the locality policy based on the 1932 Khatian and to implement the Sarna Dharma Code to ensure the religious identity of the tribals under the first 'guarantee' in Jharkhand. In the second guarantee, under the 'Maiyaan Samman Yojana' running in the state, a promise has been made to give Rs 2500 every month to women from December 2024. Currently, Rs 1000 is being given every month under this scheme.
The alliance has promised to increase the scope of reservation under the third guarantee of social justice. It says that 28% of reservations will be given to tribals, 12% to Dalits and 27% to OBCs. Apart from this, a resolution has been expressed to protect the interests of the minority community and to form a backward-class welfare ministry.
Under the fourth guarantee, a promise has been made to give 7 kg of grain free every month instead of 5 kg to the poor in the state and to give a gas cylinder to every family for Rs 450. The fifth guarantee is related to employment, in which it has been said to provide jobs and employment to 10 lakh youth.
Similarly, under the sixth guarantee, a promise has been made to establish degree colleges in all blocks, and engineering and medical colleges in all district headquarters. In the seventh guarantee, the alliance has promised to give an MSP of Rs 3,200 per quintal of paddy to the farmers and a 50 percent increase in the support price of forest products.
RJD's Jayaprakash Narayan Yadav, Congress' Jharkhand in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir, State Congress President Keshav Mahato Kamlesh and CPI-ML's Shubhendu Sen were present on the occasion of the release of the manifesto.
