BJP manifesto promises UCC, Rs 3,000 aid for women in Bengal

The BJP on Friday unveiled its manifesto for the West Bengal Assembly polls, which promises to plug infiltration, implement a Uniform Civil Code and proposes expansive welfare packages for women, youth, farmers and state government employees if the party wins the electoral battle.

Releasing the manifesto — ‘Sankalp Patra’ — here, Union Home Minister Amit Shah described it as a roadmap for “Sonar Bangla” and launched a blistering attack on the Mamata Banerjee government, alleging the last 15 years of the TMC’s rule had been a “nightmare” for the people of the



state.

“Bengal, weary of the TMC, now wants change,” he said, seeking to turn the election into a referendum on corruption, political violence, infiltration and unemployment.

The manifesto’s sharpest political edge came in Shah’s declaration that a BJP government would adopt a “detect, delete and deport” policy against infiltrators. “

Our BJP government in Bengal will adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards infiltration.” 

The party promised to secure the state’s borders, stop cattle smuggling and clear government land of “encroachers and infiltrators”,