Rashtriya Janta Dal
Elections
to the Bihar State Assembly Election Jan-Mar 2005
RJD manifesto
minority-oriented
Expressing firm resolve to weed out corruption and effectively control
the spiralling law and order situation, the ruling RJD offered a number
of sops for minorities in its manifesto for the February Assembly
elections in Bihar.
The manifesto, released by party president Lalu Prasad at a press
conference here, promised to set up a “vikas sena”, besides
toning up administrative units to ensure that the benefits of
development reach dalits, backwards, minorities and other oppressed
sections of society directly.
While pledging that the RJD would work for achieving its dream of
all-round development in Bihar, the manifesto was weighted heavily in
favour of minorities. He said that an Urdu directorate under the Raj
Bhasha department would be set up, according the SC status to extremely
backward and deprived sections of minority communities, besides posting
an Urdu-knowing employee at all police stations in the state.
Mr Prasad said that the RJD was in favour of the Women’s
Reservation Bill pending in Parliament, adding, however, that his party
“will pursue our old demands for fixation of quota for women
belonging to SC/ST, OBCs and minorities on the basis of their population”.
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