SP will restore old pension scheme for govt employees if voted to power in UP Akhilesh
Lucknow Jan 20 PTI Making an important announcement Samajwadi Party SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said if his party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh it will restore the old pension scheme benefitting lakhs of state government employees who have been agitating for the same for longWith another relative of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joining the BJP after Aparna Yadav Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the ruling party thanking it for ending parivarvaad dynastic politics in his partyOn coming to power the Samajwadi Party will restore the old pension scheme which will benefit the teachers employees and officers of the state government I have already held discussions with the employees and economic experts and have found out that we will be able to arrange funds for it by creating a corpus he told reporters hereWe will seek the support of the state government employees in the upcoming Assembly election on the issue of pension the SP chief saidThe leaders of the employees union have met several times and made a demand to this effect The BJP government had brought a new manual through which the employees appointed after April 2005 were denied this support and security on retirement Yadav said adding that restoring the pension scheme will be part of his partys poll manifestoThe employees have held agitations demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme They have alleged that the new pension scheme depends on the share market and therefore has uncertainty attached to itAccording to Rajya Karamchari Sanyukt Parishad president J N Tiwari the number of employees appointed after 2005 is around 10 lakh and most of them are teachersThe SP president also said his party is against privatisation and termed outsourcing a wrong practice that denies the poor and the deprived sections of the society their rightsThe rights given by the Constitution of B R Ambedkar are being snatched by outsourcing The SP is thinking about this as well wait for the manifesto he said adding that the party will release its manifesto after the BJP which had been working with a double engine for the last over four years and practising discriminationWhen his views were sought on Pramod Gupta another relative of Mulayam Singh Yadav who joined the BJP on Thursday after Aparna Yadav the SP chief took a swipe at the ruling party saying it should be happy nowThe BJP should be happy about this The allegation of parivarvaad that it levelled against us at least it is ending our parivarvaad and I thank the BJP for this he saidThe saffron party which has been opposed to dynastic politics wants to move forward by hatching conspiracies the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister allegedThe SP does not instigate differences in any family this is the work of the BJP he saidGupta is said to be the brother-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife Aparna Yadav who joined the BJP on Wednesday is the SP patriarchs daughter-in-lawThe manner in which leaders with a wide support base like Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan have defected from the BJP and joined the SP the way the SP has brought different parties together the BJP has lost this fight of perception and the SP is way ahead Yadav saidTo a question on Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya the SP chief said he has not been able to safeguard his honour and could do nothing for the people of his casteThe Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10 PTI SAB RC
Lucknow Jan 20 PTI Making an important announcement Samajwadi Party SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said if his party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh it will restore the old pension scheme benefitting lakhs of state government employees who have been agitating for the same for longWith another relative of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joining the BJP after Aparna Yadav Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the ruling party thanking it for ending parivarvaad dynastic politics in his partyOn coming to power the Samajwadi Party will restore the old pension scheme which will benefit the teachers employees and officers of the state government I have already held discussions with the employees and economic experts and have found out that we will be able to arrange funds for it by creating a corpus he told reporters hereWe will seek the support of the state government employees in the upcoming Assembly election on the issue of pension the SP chief saidThe leaders of the employees union have met several times and made a demand to this effect The BJP government had brought a new manual through which the employees appointed after April 2005 were denied this support and security on retirement Yadav said adding that restoring the pension scheme will be part of his partys poll manifestoThe employees have held agitations demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme They have alleged that the new pension scheme depends on the share market and therefore has uncertainty attached to itAccording to Rajya Karamchari Sanyukt Parishad president J N Tiwari the number of employees appointed after 2005 is around 10 lakh and most of them are teachersThe SP president also said his party is against privatisation and termed outsourcing a wrong practice that denies the poor and the deprived sections of the society their rightsThe rights given by the Constitution of B R Ambedkar are being snatched by outsourcing The SP is thinking about this as well wait for the manifesto he said adding that the party will release its manifesto after the BJP which had been working with a double engine for the last over four years and practising discriminationWhen his views were sought on Pramod Gupta another relative of Mulayam Singh Yadav who joined the BJP on Thursday after Aparna Yadav the SP chief took a swipe at the ruling party saying it should be happy nowThe BJP should be happy about this The allegation of parivarvaad that it levelled against us at least it is ending our parivarvaad and I thank the BJP for this he saidThe saffron party which has been opposed to dynastic politics wants to move forward by hatching conspiracies the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister allegedThe SP does not instigate differences in any family this is the work of the BJP he saidGupta is said to be the brother-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife Aparna Yadav who joined the BJP on Wednesday is the SP patriarchs daughter-in-lawThe manner in which leaders with a wide support base like Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan have defected from the BJP and joined the SP the way the SP has brought different parties together the BJP has lost this fight of perception and the SP is way ahead Yadav saidTo a question on Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya the SP chief said he has not been able to safeguard his honour and could do nothing for the people of his casteThe Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10 PTI SAB RC
