UP farmers to be debt-free by 2025, Akhilesh releases SP manifesto

In Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday released the party's manifesto for the upcoming Assembly election. Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Yadav said, “I remember that when in 2012 the SP had released its manifesto and then when we formed the government, we held a meeting of all departments related to various promises and fulfilled all those promises. With ‘satya vachan, atoot vaada’, we are going to people with this document as manifesto for 2022". Yadav said in four years all farmers -- by 2025 -- will be made 'debt free' and ‘krin mukti’ law will be made that would benefit most poor farmers.The 88-page manifesto promised minimum support price (MSP) for all crops, besides ensuring payment for sugarcane farmers in 15 day. "Will form a corpus for this if required," Yadav said.

"All farmers will get free power for irrigation, interest-free loan, insurance, and pension arrangments will be made," he added. The manifesto also promised free education for girls from primary classes till post-graduation. Also, a ‘Kanya Vidhya Dhan’ scheme will be launched again under which girls clearing their class 12th board exam will get a one-time amount of Rs36,000. It also pledged to give a laptop to all students clearing their class 12 boards. Yadav said the ‘Samajwadi Pension’ will be relaunched, under which elderly people, needy women and families in the below poverty level (BPL)-category will get Rs18,000 person every year. "This will benefit nearly one crore families," he said.