Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) manifesto for poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
According to the sources, for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the BJP will release its 'Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra', which may include issues of nationalism, development, good governance and development of Kashi Mathura.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP election in-charge for UP Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur, both Deputy Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad and Dinesh Sharma and BJP state President Swatantra Dev Singh will also be present on the occasion.
After releasing the manifesto, Shah will address an election rally in Jat-dominated areas of western Uttar Pradesh. BJP had also sought suggestions from the common people for the manifesto and it is likely that some major suggestions would also have been given a place in it.
As per sources, in the manifesto, there will be a big announcement. There may be something in response to the 300 units of free electricity of the Samajwadi Party, there can be an announcement regarding the outstanding electricity bill.
There can be a big announcement for the farmer in the manifesto, which could be made for the sugarcane farmers too.
Notably, several BJP leaders have been saying that the party has fulfilled most of the promises made in the last election's manifesto.
The polling in Uttar Pradesh will be held from February 10 in seven phases. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats.
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