the new uttar pradesh an exemplar of balanced development prosperity and security for all and resurgence of the glorious heritage of arts culture and spirituality our approach to some important issues good governance and clean politics the bjp is solemnly committed to practice and promote good governance sushasan whenever and wherever the people give us their mandate be it in panchayat municipal assembly or parliament elections we pledge to be resolute in our efforts to rid governance in up of the poison of corruption which has rendered the entire governance machinery weak ineffective and insensitive while cleaning up a staircase one cannot begin from the bottom one can only start from the top similarly our efforts to make governance corruptionfree will begin from the top and extend to all levels integral development without social and regional disparities the disparities in up both social and regional are stark the poorvanchal and bundelkhand regions of the state are the most backward socially and economically central up presents a picture of either stagnation or slow growth as a region western up is the most prosperous partly due to the development of sugarcanedominated agriculture and more recently due to the emergence of noida and ghaziabad as industrial and business hubs due to their proximity to delhi however even in the rapidly urbanizing places in western up we see new forms of disparity with the poor and working people pushed to the margins of development the bjp believes that the time has come to redefine and restate the true principles and determinants of development this has become necessary in the context of not only up but the entire country what exactly is development the answer to this development shows that our party has a distinct vision of indias development which is consistent with our distinctive spiritual and cultural ethos and our understanding of the purpose of human life for example in the developmental vision of sonia gandhi and manmohan singh up would be adjudged to have become developed if the glitz and glitter of delhi get replicated all the way from noida in the west to ballia in the east in other words development for the congress means creating enclaves for the rich all over the state and the country with the rest of the population playing a secondary and supportive roles to serve the needs of the elite the samajwadi party and the bahujan samaj party have no development vision at all except that they would like their own leaders and their families to join the exclusive club of millionaires and billionaires in contrast the bjp believes in the balanced development of society with benefits and opportunities of growth equally available to all sections especially to the poor first consistent with the philosophy of antyodaya we believe that the last man in society should have the first priority in any developmental policy plan or scheme moreover the last man should not merely be a passive recipient of the doles given by the government but