Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, on Monday criticised election manifesto released by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying it was for industrialists and ignored poor.
"The election manifesto released by the BJP is beneficial only for rich people and not for others. The manifesto reads that they shall maintain connection with the industrialists of the country and keep them united. I want to question them and ask when do they intend to unite farmers, labourers and poor people of the country. They want to unite industrialists and not farmers and poor of the country," Yadav said while addressing a rally in Barh.
The party's manifesto was released as first phase of Indian elections began from Assam and Tripura on Monday.
Senior leader, Murli Manohar Joshi, who headed the BJP Manifesto Committee, said the focus was on five Ts in the party's manifesto - talent, tourism, trade, tradition and technology.
Modi pledged to provide good governance, if his party was voted to power in the world's biggest election and added that the party aims to provide a strong and united India, which would enjoy the world's respect.
Addressing people, Yadav said Samajwadi Party-led Uttar Pradesh government was providing welfare schemes and programmes to tax-payers and no other government was competent enough to do so.
"We are the first government that has paid back the money of the tax-payers through programmes, policies and decision. No one else has done this. The prime ministerial candidate of the BJP (Narendra Modi) could not do it in his own state himself, even when the people of his state gave him the chance, thrice. Neither the state government of Gujarat nor the Madhya Pradesh government has managed to accomplish the welfare work that has been done in the past two years by the Uttar Pradesh government," he said.
