BJP manifesto promises UCC, ‘anti-radicalisation cell’ in Guj

AHMEDABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda on Saturday released the party’s “Sankalp Patra” for the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections, promising to create an anti-radicalisation cell to identify “any potential threats”, bringing in a Uniform Civil Code and making the state a $1-trillion economy, among other things.

Key among the BJP’S promises were jobs for two million unemployed youth, a schools of excellence project, doubling the annual cap under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (Ayushman Bharat) from ₹5 lakh to ₹10 lakh per family, and enacting the Gujarat Recovery of Damages of Public and Private Properties Act.

“We will create an anti-radicalisation cell to identify and eliminate potential threats, and sleeper cells of the terrorist organisations and anti-india forces,” Nadda said at the release of the manifesto.

“We will also make a law pertaining to damages to public property. The law will be regarding the recovery from anti-social elements who damage the public property and attack private properties,” he said.

According to the manifesto, the law will aim to recover damages incurred during riots, violent protests and social unrest.

He said that they will make the state’s economy reach $1 trillion by making it a destination for foreign direct investments. “We will make Gujarat a $1-trillion economy by maintaining its pole position in manufacturing, focusing on services and investing in human and institu