The BJP carried out a grand unveiling of its much-hyped manifesto for Lok Sabha elections on Thursday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Rakshipati Adheenantragaar and BJP President Jai Prakash Nadda stealing highlights of the evening from the party HQ.
The manifesto, dubbed the “gold standard” by Defence Minister Singh, outlines the BJP’s vision for a “Viksit Bharat” (Developed India), with a strong emphasis on four key pillars: women, youth, farmers and others from economically deprived societies.
Modi the PM had made a presentation on media, where he did appreciate the manifesto’s concentration on the concept of “dignity of life” and “quality of life”, ensuring to extend the measures like Ayushman Bharat and the PM Avas Yojana, and piped gas and free electricity through solar power to every household.
For the farmers, the BJP party committed to maintaining the ₹6000 annual assistance, intensifying crop insurance, and market operation of the minimum support price. Besides, the party promised at all costs to make the country net surplus and also be independent in the production of its essential commodities for example pulses, edible oil and vegetables.
The party pointed to the recent BJP’s ‘Modi ki Guarantee’ slogan, in which BJP chief Nadda affirmed that the government’s track record of delivering on its promises, such as the revoking of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and the construction of the Ram Temple, could prove its directness in delivering on these promises.
The manifesto, nonetheless, received flak from the Congress, with its spokesperson Pawan Khera terming it as only a “Sankalp Patra” (resolution) without the party’s vision to change. Supriya Shrinate, one of the Congress spokespersons, further represented this bluntness of the BJP after she accused them of keeping their popularity up by just telling so many lies that people believe them to be true.
The BJP’s manifesto which is a critical arsenal of the party in the drive for the votes would be a key rallying point for the party to consolidate support while opposition parties would closely scrutinize its promises to look for loopholes.
