PM Modi to release BJP poll manifesto & celebrate birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar on Sunday

  • The 24-member manifesto committee has Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as coordinator and Union Minister Piyush Goyal as the co-coordinator
  • The party’s planks of welfare and development besides a roadmap for ‘viksit Bharat’ expected to figure prominently in its election agenda
  • Measures for the youth, women, farmers and the poor — four “castes” Modi has often spoken about — will be among the highlights of its poll pledges

NE NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI, APRIL 13

The Bharatiya Janata Party has announced that it will release its Lok Sabha polls manifesto -Sankalp Patra – at the party headquarters in Delhi on Sunday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders of the party are expected to attend the unveiling of the manifesto at the party headquarters that coincides with the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, a towering leader from the Dalit community and an architect of the Indian Constitution.

As the BJP government has fulfilled most of its core ideological promises, including the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and the repeal of Article 370, all eyes will be on how the ruling party’s larger cultural and Hindutva agenda figures in the manifesto.

The party’s planks of welfare and development besides a roadmap for ‘viksit Bharat’ expected to figure prominently in its election agenda.

Party sources said measures for the youth, women, farmers and the poor — four “castes” Modi has often spoken about — will be among the highlights of its poll pledges.

According to reports, the party’s manifesto committee chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has already held two meetings and has received over 1.5 millions suggestions from the public. More than 4,00,000 suggestions were received through the NaMo app. The party had launched multiple exercises, including vans sent across the country and social media campaigns, to seek people’s suggestions.

The 24-member manifesto committee has Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as coordinator and Union Minister Piyush Goyal as the co-coordinator.