Five days before the crucial first phase of Gujarat elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP released its manifesto or Sankalp Patra on Saturday in Gandhinagar. The party's manifesto was attended by Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, BJP national president JP Nadda and state party president CR Patil. The Gujarat elections will be held in two phases on December 1 and December 5. The counting will be done on December 8.
In its manifesto, the ruling party has promised to create 20 lakh jobs for youth in a five-year period, including 1 lakh jobs for women in the state. It promised to implement the Uniform Civil Code, Antiradicalization Cell, and Recovery of Damages of Public and Private Properties Act.
Gujarat, the home state of PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, is currently a political battlefield, as the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party AAP are contesting in the state.
In a speech at the launch of the manifesto, the BJP chief Nadda said Gujarat was the land of change makers and gave reference to PM Modi and his remarkable journey, which he started from Gujarat.
We want to make Gujarat's economy equal to that of a 1 trillion economy by making the state a foreign direct investment destination. The BJP chief said on Saturday that they will create an anti-radicalisation cell to identify and eliminate potential threats and sleeper cells of the terrorist organizations and anti-India forces.
Establish 4 Gujarat Institute of Technology GIT on the lines of IITs as Centres of Excellence in the areas of Green Energy, Semiconductors, Fintech and Aerospace.
The Mukhyamantri Free Diagnostic Scheme is about to launch with a corpus of Rs 110 crore to provide free-of-cost diagnostic services in all government health institutions and empanelled laboratories for EWS households.
Ensure state-of-the-art healthcare facilities in tribal areas by setting up 8 medical colleges and 10 nursing colleges.