BJP's Madhya Pradesh manifesto

Madhya Pradesh BJP announced to make the country’s first water policy for the public water sources and loans to farmers at 3% interest rate while releasing the party’s much-awaited manifesto for the 27 November assembly polls.The manifesto for the assembly polls 2008 was released by former BJP president Vankaiah Naidu in the presence of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the state party president Narendra Singh Tomar among others in a press meet.Highlighting the salient features of the manifesto, Chouhan said that the party has promised to frame the country’s first ‘Jal Neeti’ (Water Policy) by constituting an authority for conserving and protecting water.The policy will also be focused on public water sources in view of the deepening water crisis in the state besides identifying and regenerating old water bodies. The party has also promised to turn Madhya Pradesh as the first bio-agriculture state in the country.