Dehradun: The Bhartiya Janta Party released Uttarakhand Manifesto on Wednesday. The party’s ‘Drishti Patra’ was released by union minister Nitin Gadkari in Dehradun.
The BJP has announced several promises including stricter laws against what it calls the ‘Love Jihad’.
“We will amend the law of ‘Love Jihad’ to make it stricter including a provision of 10 years of rigorous imprisonment,” Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Dhami told ANI.
The promises made in the ‘Drishti Patra’ are:
> Expansion of Char Dham project by linking all pilgrimage sites
> Transforming Haridwar as the international Yoga capital
> ₹1 crore earmarked for Vedic schools
> Construction of Sainya Dham & museum to honour soldiers
> Three free LPG cylinders to the poor in a year
> Pregnant women living in hilly areas to get ₹40,000
> Senior citizens pensions to be hiked to ₹3,600
> 50,000 government jobs to the youth.
The elections to 70-member Assembly in Uttarakhand will be held on February 14. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
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