If voted to power in UP, SP will restore old pension scheme for government employees: Akhilesh

In an important announcement, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that if his party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh, it will restore the old pension scheme, the benefit of which will be available to lakhs of state government employees. Movement for a long time. After Aparna Yadav, another relative of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, joined the BJP, Akhilesh Yadav took a dig at the ruling party, thanking it for ending “parivarvaad” (dynastic politics) in his party.

“If voted to power, the Samajwadi Party will restore the old pension scheme, the benefits of which will be given to the teachers, employees and officers of the state government. I have already discussed with the employees and economic experts and learned that we will be able to arrange funds for this by creating a fund for the assembly elections on the issue of pension,” the SP chief said.

The leaders of the employees union have met several times and demanded this effect. Yadav said the BJP government had brought out a new manual through which employees appointed after April 2005 were denied this support and protection upon retirement, adding that restoring the pension scheme would be part of his party’s election manifesto. . The employees have agitated for the demand to restore the old pension scheme. He has alleged that the new pension scheme depends on the stock market and hence there is uncertainty attached to it.

According to JN Tiwari, president of the State Employees Joint Council, the number of employees appointed after 2005 is about one million and most of them are teachers. The SP president also said that his party is against privatization and termed outsourcing as a wrong practice that deprives the poor and deprived sections of the society of their rights.

“The rights given by the Constitution of BR Ambedkar are being taken away by outsourcing. SP is thinking about this too, wait for the manifesto.” When asked for his views on Pramod Gupta, another relative of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who joined BJP after Aparna Yadav, the SP chief took a dig at the ruling party. Having said that it should be happy now.

“BJP should be happy with this. The allegation of familism that he has leveled against us is at least destroying our familism and I thank BJP for this. The saffron party, which is opposed to dynasty politics, wants to move ahead by conspiring. The former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh alleged.

He said, “The SP does not instigate differences in any family, it is the work of the BJP.” Gupta is said to be the brother-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s second wife. Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday. She is the daughter-in-law of the SP Vice Chancellor.

The way leaders with a wide support base like Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chouhan have left the BJP and joined the SP, the way the SP has brought various parties together, the BJP has lost this battle of perception and SP. There is a way forward.”

The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are to be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will take place on March 10.

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