Congress promises quotas in govt. jobs

The secular Congress party has released its election manifesto, March 31, for the upcoming Assembly polls assuring the best possible welfare measures for minority, Dalits as well as 10 percent reservation in government jobs to economically backward upper caste people.

Releasing the manifesto, UP Congress Committee president Salman Khurshid and Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said the document aimed at giving a blueprint of speedy development of the state and rid the people of communal, caste and corrupt political parties.

The party also seemed confident that it will have a major role in the next government formation in the state.

Sparing nothing against SP, BSP and BJP, the Congress manifesto promised to provide a government, which would follow the path of development, communal and social harmony, which the party believes has stopped after the exit of Congress from the state 17 years ago.

No government in the state could be formed or run without Congress, the senior Congress leaders said.

Both the leaders, accompanied by Congress Legislature Party leader Pramod Tiwari and former UP chief minister Ram Naresh Yadav, asserted the election manifesto for the UP polls was just a reflection of coalition government United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) election manifesto at the Center.