RJD MANIFESTO
power. Unemployment is our biggest enemy. The BJP had promised 2 crore jobs every year, but it was not fulfilled. We are truthful people, and this is why we are making a realistic promise. We will fulfil our promise as we created 5 lakh jobs in the 17-month tenure of the Grand Alliance (GA) government in which I was the deputy chief minister,” he said.
He also said the INDIA bloc government, if voted to power, would provide Rs 1 lakh as assistance per year to woman from poor families for empowerment across the country. “We will provide Rs 1 lakh as assistance to our sisters belonging to poor families from this Rakha Bandhan, if our government comes to power,” he said. He maintained that his party has the commitment to grant special status category to Bihar and a dedicated special package to Bihar of Rs 1.60 lakh crore.
“This package would be exclusively for Bihar for its development and economic progress. By calculation, the package would enable provision of Rs 4,000 crore to each of 40 parliamentary seats in Bihar,” Tejashwi said. He also asserted that his party and other allies in the INDIA bloc are committed to scrap the Agniveer scheme and would give status of martyr to all security personnel from central paramilitary forces, if they die on duty.
The RJD manifesto also promised to set upfive airports in Bihar at Purnea, Gopalganj, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Raxaul, which, Tejashwi said, would provide better air connectivety to people of the state and boost tourism.
“We will also provide 200 units of free electricity to consumers, provide LPG cylinders at Rs 500 across India and also implement the old pension scheme (OPS) for government employees in state and central level. We will also implement the Swaminathan report for addressing farm issues and increase minimum support price (MSP) for farmers,” Tejashwi said.
“We will also conduct a nationwide caste survey, if voted to power,” he said adding that his party would ensure that reservation limit for backward classes would be enhanced to 65 percent in Bihar. There was no immediate response available from the Congress to the RJD’s manifesto.
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said the RJD was only contesting 23 seats in Bihar. “What is Yadav’s own status at the national level? This is all big talk and nothing else,” he said.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bihar state president Samrat Choudhary, in a press interaction, said the RJD leader was only showing false dreams to youths. Deputy chief minister and BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha said, “The RJD’s top family is facing charges of taking land in liue of jobs. They are now planning to take more land against job promises.”
HAM(S) founder and former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi took a jibe at the RJD, through a post on his official handle on X, saying that the big commitments were nothing but lofty promises. “The RJD manifesto had left certain things amiss. Like merging America with India, making sea water sweet, rise of Sun from the West and mountains will fly in the air,” Manjhi said in a post.
JD(U) senior leader K C Taygi said there was no chance of any ‘parivartan” or change be it in Bihar or at the national level, no matter what the RJD claims. “Chief minister Nitish Kumar is running Bihar and PM Modi is running the country. It will remain the same. The RJD knows it is not going to get anything in this poll. So, they are making all sorts of promises. This is all a bundle of lies,” he said.