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We will remove regional imbalance, says SP

Atiq Khan

Manifesto promises roti, kapda, makan, education, healthcare

Terror menace will be addressed by striking at its root
Importance to human labour than machines

LUCKNOW: Describing terrorism and economic meltdown as the biggest challenges facing the country, the Samajwadi Party on Saturday said it would ensure that the next secular government at the Centre addressed the terror menace by striking at its root.

On measures to tackle the after-effects of global meltdown, the party favoured a logical balance between the maximum and minimum wages. It mooted a ban on high salary and perquisites.

Releasing the party manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, SP president Mulayam Singh said regional imbalances — whether at the national or at international level — gave birth to terrorism. He said the SP would ensure that the regional diversities were removed.

Terming the manifesto development-oriented, Mr. Singh said if voted to power, roti, kapda, makan, educational opportunities and availability of health facilities, power and drinking water would be ensured to the people.

Physical barriers

On tackling cross-border terrorism, the SP chief said that until physical barriers divided India with her neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh, terrorism would flourish. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister harped on his pet theme of a confederation of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Accusing the previous governments of promoting forward trading, share market and the mall and multiplex culture in the country, Mr. Singh said the SP-supported government at the Centre would either reverse the trend, or would impose a ban on it.

Importance would be given to human labour and the workers would not be enslaved to computers and machines. He drew a parallel between harvesters and computers and said both would render the poor jobless. While farm labourers would become unemployed and face starvation with the use of harvesters, computers would perform the same function in offices.

Mr. Singh assured that the cops dismissed by the previous regimes would be reinstated, if a SP-supported government was formed after the Lok Sabha elections.

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