{"id":104345,"date":"2020-11-08T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=104345"},"modified":"2020-11-09T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:12:01","slug":"bihar-first-bihari-first-chirag-paswan-ljp-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/bihar-election\/bihar-first-bihari-first-chirag-paswan-ljp-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar First Bihari First: A look at salient features of Lok Janshakti Party\u2019s manifesto for Bihar Election 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party, which took everyone by surprise when it announced the decision to go solo, fought the election with the promise of upliftment of youth and improvement of several sectors including education, healthcare, employment and law &amp; order among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election manifesto titled Bihar First Bihari First was released by Paswan Jr on October 21, just a few days after his father union minister Ram Vilas Paswan\u2019s death. The LJP leader said the manifesto was based on the vision of his father. Paswan, who has clearly maintained that his fight is against the Janata Dal (United) and Nitish Kumar and not the saffron party, said he believes in the development model of the Modi government and LJP and BJP will come together to form the next government in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Patna: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan sought blessings of his mother before leaving for LJP office for the releases of party&#39;s manifesto for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BiharElections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BiharElections<\/a> in Patna. (earlier visuals) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JxKh7QM94u\">pic.twitter.com\/JxKh7QM94u<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1318809619683106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the manifesto, the party promised all sections of the society will be given houses under Bangla scheme. The manifesto mentioned that contractual teachers will be given equal pay for equal work. Apart from this, all vacant posts in the government department will be filled in a bid to give employment opportunities to people of the state. A job portal will also be launched where job-seekers and employers can get in touch. Community mobiliser Jeevika and Aasha workers will get salaries in place of commission. The party has also promised to set up a migrant department to look into the issues of migrant workers who faced an unprecedented crisis during the Covid lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bihar polls 2020: LJP chief Chirag Paswan releases party manifesto as elections draw near<br>Track our latest coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BiharElections2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BiharElections2020<\/a> here  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V0WRnM6Y4q\">https:\/\/t.co\/V0WRnM6Y4q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ao6dXWBx0x\">pic.twitter.com\/ao6dXWBx0x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EconomicTimes\/status\/1318825824343093248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LJP\u2019s vision document mentioned that 10% free health services will be provided to the poor in private hospitals. A youth commission will also be set up in the state. All high schools will provide education till plus two. The party has promised to set up a film city and a coaching city in the state if it comes to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/bihar-poll-bjp-development-jungle-raj-ram-mandir-article-370-caa\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/bihar-poll-bjp-development-jungle-raj-ram-mandir-article-370-caa\/\">BJP\u2019s Bihar poll campaign: Development, jungle raj, Ram Mandir, Article 370, CAA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Paswan-led party also addressed the issue of floods in its manifesto, which continue to cause massive destruction year after year, and said that rivers will be linked through canals to prevent deluge in the future. Paswan Jr, who has been targeting CM Nitish Kumar since announcing his solo act, said a legal probe will be ordered to look into&nbsp;alleged corruption in Seven Resolves programme of the Nitish government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vision document stated that Denmark Model will be implemented in Bihar in order to boost the dairy industry. Developing Sitamarhi for the purpose of promoting spiritual tourism in the state is another feature that finds mention in LJP\u2019s manifesto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paswan, who has clearly maintained that his fight is against the Janata Dal (United) and Nitish Kumar and not the saffron party, said he believes in the development model of Modi government and LJP and BJP will come together to form the next government in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[98262],"tags":[97248,97504,62157,62156,98344],"yst_prominent_words":[6008,12017,4097,21193,3885,47512,3868,5453,4023,11936,12931,21603,21018,6754,48977,21103],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/11\/08144239\/chirag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104345"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=104345"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=104345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->