SAS Nagar, April 6 – Mohali Municipal Corporation Deputy Mayor Kuljit Singh Bedi has said that nationwide socio-economic and caste census is the need of the hour. Which Congress has included in the election manifesto. Appreciating the manifesto issued by the Congress party for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, he said that in the manifesto issued by the Congress party, different sections of the society (youth, women, farmers, workers and equal justice) has spoken of justice And the Congress Party has spoken of dispelling the darkness in the current period of injustice and giving the people of India a prosperous new and harmonious future.

He said that after coming to power in the country through this election manifesto, the Congress party will ensure freedom of choice of clothes, food, language and personal laws to the minorities like every citizen. Will encourage reforms in personal laws and will make decisions with the participation and consensus of all communities. He said that the Congress party has made an effort to uplift the downtrodden by talking about increasing the reservation limit for SC, ST and OBC by 50 percent. And all the backlog vacancies of the posts reserved for these categories are advertised for recruitment within one year.

He said that while standing in favor of the farmers, the Congress manifesto has guaranteed to raise the crops of the farmers at MSP. And 10 percent reservation in jobs and educational institutions for economically weaker sections has been talked about to be applied to all castes and communities without any discrimination.

He said that the biggest thing in the manifesto is that the Congress will end the contract system of regular jobs in government and public sector enterprises. Institutional loans will be provided to SC and ST categories for building houses, starting businesses and buying property. Under the Land Ceiling Act, an authority will be created to monitor the allocation of government land and surplus land to the poor and a network of residential schools for poor, SC and SC students will be created and extended to every block.

He said that on the other hand unemployment has increased wildly in the current central government and India has gone down somewhere along with Pakistan in the happiness index. He said that China changes the names of 30 areas of Arunachal Pradesh but the central government keeps silent.