The Hindutva party also said it would provide LPG cylinders at Rs 500 for every household, along with two free cylinders each year.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sankalp Patra, or manifesto, for the upcoming Jharkhand Assembly elections, promising to provide Rs 2,100 per month to every woman in the state if his party came to power, reported News 18.
The launch event in Ranchi was attended by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Sanjay Seth and BJP Jharkhand President Babulal Marandi.
Voting for the Jharkhand Assembly polls will be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20. The counting of votes will take place on November 23, alongside that of the Maharashtra elections.
Other key promises in the BJP’s manifesto include providing liquefied petroleum gas cylinders at Rs 500 each for every household, along with two free cylinders each year, reported News 18.
The party has also pledged to return land allegedly occupied by “infiltrators” to the state’s Adivasis. The manifesto adds that the children of “infiltrators” who marry Adivasis will not be recognised as Adivasis.
The Hindutva party has also promised to exempt Adivasis from the Uniform Civil Code.
The Uniform Civil Code is a proposed common set of laws governing marriage, divorce, succession and adoption for all citizens. Currently, such personal affairs of different religious and Indigenous groups – except in Uttarakhand and Goa – are based on community-specific laws, largely derived from religious scripture.
