GUWAHATI, April 1 -- The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam on Tuesday released a 31-point 'sankalp-patra' (manifesto) for the April 9 assembly polls in the state which included promises to deport all illegal infiltrators, evict illegal settlers from encroached government land and implement uniform civil code (UCC). The manifesto was released in the party's state head quarters in Guwahati by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the presence of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP state president Dilip Saikia and a large number of party leaders. "Assam today is the one of fastest growing economies in India. I see a state that has transformed so much in 10 years under BJP rule which Congress couldn't achieve despite being in power for six decades," said Sitharaman. "Due to the fast growth of the economy including the setting up of the semi-conductor plant in Jagiroad which has created around 27,000 jobs, Assamese who were working outside the state and abroad are choosing to come back," she added. Sitharaman highlighted direct benefit transfer (DBT) schemes like Orunodoi through which around 4 million families are being given a sum of Rs.1,250 per month and also the move to provide land rights to 450,000 tea-garden workers. CM Sarma said that one of the foremost tasks for the new BJP government would be to stringently use provisions of a 1950 law, the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam), Act (IEAA), which empowers district authorities to deport illegal foreigners within 24 hours of their detection. "We promise to use this legislation more stringently and expel Bangladeshi Miyas daily in order to rid the state of them," he said. Miya is a pejorative term used in Assam for Bengali-speaking Muslims. Legal provisions regard all those who entered Assam on or before March 24, 1971 (the date on which Bangladesh was formed) as Indian citizens, but Assam has witnessed entry of more illegals from Bangladesh even after that date. Others like Bengali-speaking Hindus who also moved to Assam from Bangladesh on or before December 31, 2014 can become Indian citizens under provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The CM the stated the the government would implement uniform civil code (UCC) in Assam, but added that areas falling under Sixth Schedule of the Constitution (which has provisions for autonomy and self-governance of scheduled tribes in some areas of north east India) and indigenous tribal population will be left out of its ambit. "We will bring stringent legislation against 'love jihad' and 'land jihad' and promise to break the backbone of Bangladeshi Miyas residing in Assam," said Sarma. Love-jihad is a term used to describe so-called enticing women and girls without revealing one's religious identity and land-jihad is supposed encroachments of land by people from a certain religion as part of a plan. Sarma said that in the next five years the state government will spend Rs.5 lakh crore to boost roads, railways, airports and waterways in Assam. "We will take steps to make Assam flood-free and will spend Rs 18,000 crore on that initiative in the first two years of coming to power. I promise to provide 200,000 jobs in next five years and create an additional 1 million jobs as part of different schemes to encourage entrepreneurs, start ups and rapid industrialization," he said "The state government will provide mustard oil, sugar and pulses at subsidized rates and give it free to extremely poor families. We promise to set up an university, medical college and engineering college in all districts of Assam. We will also make education free from KG to PG (kindergarten to post-graduate," Sarma added. The CM also promised to give one time assistance of Rs 25,000 each to 4 million women to help them set up own ventures and become lakhpatis and also increase the monthly sum given under Orunodoi to 4 million families from Rs.1250 per month to Rs.3000. Increasing daily wages of tea-garden workers from Rs.280 to Rs.500 and providing another 1.5 million homes under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY) are other promises made in the manifesto....