Besides focusing on creating infrastructure and better road system, special emphasis is on minorities welfare, women, farmers and urban and rural poor.

In order to retain the support of minorities for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Akhilesh Yadav government has increased the allocation by 29 per cent.

Akhilesh Yadav government has allocated Rs 2153 crores for minorities welfare schemes.

Significantly enough, the scheme, which is most successful in minorities community is Humar beti, Uska kal, in which Rs 350 crore has been allocated for higher education for girls or using the money for their marriage.

Similarly, funds for scholarship to minority community students have also been increased from Rs 500 crore to Rs 777 crore.

In order to provide modern education to madrasas and makhtabs, the fund allocation has been increased by Rs 100 crore, but no provision has been made for Rs 300 crores for this purpose.

The government has also allocated Rs 27 crore for Haj House in Ghaziabad and has awarded a grant of Rs 3.72 crores for the state Haj Committee.

The Akhilesh Yadav government has made the provision of Rs 315 crore for Arabia level institutions and Rs 70 crores for Alia level institutes that are recognised by the government.

In order to prepare minorities community students for civil services examinations, government has provided Rs 1.85 crore for coaching classes.

The Akhilesh Yadav government has also made a provision of Rs 10 crores for providing bicycles for girl students from minority communities. The government has made the provision Rs 6.50 crores to those madrasas imparting training for vocational courses.

It would be worth mentioning here that the Samajwadi Party got the maximum support from the minorities during the last assembly polls.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav are working very hard to increase the tally of their party in the Lok Sabha for which support from minority community is very vital.

Mulayam Singh Yadav has been asking his party workers to ensure more than 50 seats in Lok Sabha in order to position himself as the prime minister, should voters give verdict for a hung Lok Sabha.

BJP has strongly reacted to the way the Akhilesh Yadav government has given so much for minorities. BJP state president in Uttar Pradesh LK Bajpai said that his party was disappointed by the budget, which was communally aimed to appease Muslims. He also criticised the Akhilesh Yadav government for fanning communal discrimination. (IPA)