The Samajwadi Party has promised to set up a commission to probe the corruption in the five years of Mayawati regime in Uttar Pradesh. The commission would be asked to submit its report within a specified time frame. The party also said that the office of the lokayukta would be strengthened by making it a multi-member body.
The manifesto said that corruption has recorded a peak in the Mayawati regime and had hampered development.
The Samajwadi Party, in its election manifesto released here on Friday, also promises a ban on land acquisition except in very urgent cases. The manifesto promises various sops for the agriculture sector.
Apart from this, the Samajwadi Party has promised to rain sops on all sections of society if it forms government in Uttar Pradesh.
The party has promised laptops to intermediate-passed students, loans at 4 per cent interest to small and marginal farmers and pension to those above 65 years besides loan waivers.
Releasing the manifesto here on Friday, in the presence of Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, senior SP leader Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav read out the manifesto and said that land acquisition, wherever urgently needed, would be done it would be with the consent of farmers and the compensation given would be six times higher than the circle rate.
If the land remains unutilised for three years, it would be returned to the farmers. “We will also pressurise the Centre to grant reservation to Muslims in proportion with their population. We will set up educational institutions in Muslim-dominated districts and ensure justice for innocent Muslim youth who are being victimised in the name of terrorism,” Prof. Yadav explained.