Lok Janshakti Party

Elections to the Bihar State Assembly Election Jan-Mar 2005

LJP manifesto promises modern, crime-free Bihar

Pledging to build a modern and crime-free Bihar if voted to power, the Lok Janashakti Party in its manifesto on Saturday said it would work towards forming a "real and secular" government committed to establishing the rule of law.

The party also offered a slew of sops for the welfare of minorities, Dalits and other weaker sections of society and bringing a legislation guaranteeing employment to all within six months of the LJP coming to power.

"In the event of coming to power the party would build a modern and crime-free Bihar," LJP president and Union Chemicals and Fertiliser Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said while releasing the manifesto at a press conference in Patna.

The LJP would provide 10 per cent reservation to Muslims, who are educationally and financially backward, on the pattern of that reserved for other backward castes, he said.

Besides, special budgetary allocation would also be made for all minority educational institutions and steps would be taken for reopening the "dead" ones.

He said the LJP government would also set up a full-fledged university for minorities.