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Thrust on tackling unemployment: Paswan

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Ram Vilas Paswan

SHIMLA: Social engineering is no concept and had no role to play in Uttar Pradesh but it was the absence of any alternative and disillusionment with Samajwadi Party that led BSP come to power, said Lok Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan here on Sunday.

Releasing his party’s manifesto here, Mr. Paswan said his party was fighting in as many as 50 seats in Himachal Pradesh after pre-poll talks with the Congress failed.

Mr. Paswan said the BSP was no longer a Dalit party and had become a Brahmin Samaj Party.

The LJP fought 28 seats last time and the State president won from the Nahan seat. Following the increase in membership, we increased the number of candidates this time, said Mr. Paswan.

The party in its manifesto has given a major thrust to tackle the unemployment problem. The Union government has sanctioned a steel plant in public sector to the State in which the local youth could be given jobs, said the LJP chief. From just trading, the State had to enter into manufacturing if more jobs were to be created, he said.

Crop insurance

The manifesto has promised crop insurance for horticulture. Subsidies would be provided in fertilizers for horticulture farmers and cane and other manures used for apple orchards would be brought under subsidised grants.

Karat to address rally

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat will address a public rally here on Monday said State Secretariat member Tikender Panwar.

Talking to reporters, he said more the 60 per cent of the States’ population was under the age of 40 and it consisted of about 10 lakh registered educated unemployed young men all over the State. This section had suffered due to privatisation and liberalisation polices.

The party demanded extension of the NREGA to urban areas also and an unemployment allowance of Rs. 500 to the jobless youth. Himachal Pradesh University should be changed into a Central University and the hill State should be made an IT hub.

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