Bhopal, Nov 11: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) promised to safeguard the interests of farmers, provide jobs to unemployed youth and protect women and dalits in Madhya Pradesh, if voted to power in the December one elections. Releasing the party manifesto in the absence of party's state president Kalpana Parulekar, NCP national secretary Kunwar Pratap Singh Chaudhari told reporters that if elected, the NCP government would also make available cheap fertilisers, electricity, seeds and water in time, crop insurance and agricultural loans on easy interests to the farmers.

Electricity would be supplied to farmers round the clock, while steps would be taken for proper storage of farm products in wholesale markets, promotion of small scale industries, employment to one youth from each family and reinstatement of daily wage employees who had been removed by present Congress government in the state, Chaudhari said.

Besides, the party also promised to give salaries to state government employees at par with those at the centre, enact strict laws to improve condition of dalits, curb atrocities against women and provide security to them besides 35 per cent reservation for women in government service. Bureau Report