Implementation of a law to prevent paper leaks
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll manifesto here on Sunday in the presence of party president J P Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other leaders.
Here are the key highlights of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) “Sankalp Patra” for the 2024 parliamentary polls:
* Free ration for the poor for the next five years under the Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana.
* The party will continue to provide free and quality healthcare services of up to Rs 5 lakh to poor families under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.
* Free electricity to poor households under the Prime Minister Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana.
* Efforts to empower three crore rural women to become “Lakhpati Didis”.
* Integration of women self-help groups (SHGs) with the service sector, enhancing market access for women SHG enterprises:
Ensuring development of infrastructure, such as working women’s hostels and creches, with a specific focus on locations near industrial and commercial centres to facilitate increased participation of women in the workforce.
Expansion of the existing health services, focusing on prevention and reduction of anaemia, breast cancer, cervical cancer and osteoporosis, ensuring a healthy life for women.
Launching a focused initiative to eliminate cervical cancer.
Implementation of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam to ensure representation of women in Parliament and the state legislatures.
* A transparent government recruitment system.
* Implementation of a law to prevent paper leaks.
* Expansion of the Ayushman Bharat Yojana to cover senior citizens and provide them access to free and quality healthcare. Delivery of government services at doorsteps to ensure seamless access to social security benefits and other essential government services for senior citizens by leveraging the extensive reach and reliability of the postal and digital network.
* Strengthening the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to provide sustained financial support to farmers.
* Strengthening the Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojana through more technological interventions to ensure speedy and more accurate assessment, faster payouts and quicker grievance resolution.
* Increasing the minimum support price (MSP) for crops.
* Launching the Krishi Infrastructure Mission for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of agri-infrastructure projects like storage facilities, irrigation, grading and sorting units, cold-storage facilities and food processing.
* Expansion of irrigation facilities, launching technology-enabled irrigation initiatives to implement cutting-edge technology for efficient water management.
* Launching an indigenous “Bharat Krishi” satellite for farm-related activities like crop forecasting, pesticide application, irrigation, soil health and weather forecasting.
* A periodic review of the national floor-level minimum wages.
* Inclusion of autorickshaw, taxi, truck drivers and other drivers in all social security schemes.
* Empowerment of small traders and MSMEs through the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to help them expand their businesses using technology.
* A focused approach for tribal healthcare, measures to eliminate malnutrition among tribal children and providing comprehensive healthcare services in tribal areas on a mission mode.
* Measures to eliminate sickle-cell anaemia.
* “Modi ki Guarantee” for a secure and prosperous Bharat.
* Robust infrastructure along the borders, technological solutions on the fenced portions to make fencing smarter.
* Implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
* Making India the third-largest economy in the world.
* Expansion of employment opportunities.
* Measures to make India a global manufacturing hub in various sectors, including electronics, by 2030.
* “Modi ki Guarantee” on good governance.
* Bringing a Uniform Civil Code.
* Making “One Nation, One Election” a reality.
* Quality education, establishing new institutions of higher learning.
* Balanced regional development, maintaining peace in the northeast.
* Resolution of inter-state border disputes among the northeastern states through sustained efforts.
‘Jumla patra’; Says AAP
The AAP on Sunday termed the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll manifesto a “jumla patra” and said the document has no mention of the promises made by the Centre in the last 10 years.
The “Sankalp Patra” of the saffron party talks about making “one nation, one election” a reality, preparing common electoral rolls, abolishing waiting lists for train travel, expansion of 5G networks and organising Ramayan festivals the world over.
Addressing a press conference, senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi said the manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is nothing but a “jumla patra (document of rhetoric)”.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised two crore jobs every year to the youngsters of the country, but the jumla patra has no data on the job creation in the last 10 years,” Atishi said.
Youngsters are worried because of unemployment, she said, adding that the price of LPG cylinders has risen from Rs 300 to Rs 1,200 while the price of diesel has gone up from Rs55 to Rs90 per litre.
“Every family is facing difficulties in meeting their expenses. No one will trust the jumla patra released by the BJP,” the minister in the Delhi government said.
Modi released the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll manifesto at the party headquarters here on Sunday. The manifesto has a special focus on the poor, youngsters, farmers and women.
Just empty jugglery of words: Congress
The Congress on Sunday trashed the BJP Lok Sabha poll manifesto as a “jumla patra’ full of rhetoric, with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge saying that Modi’s guarantee is a “warranty of jumlas” as he has failed to fulfil the promises made in the past.
The Congress also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not fulfilling promises made on the issue of jobs, doubling of farmers’ incomes and tackling price rise and inflation, and alleged that he was now shifting the goalposts by talking about 2047 instead.
Kharge charged that the prime minister did not do any major work during his tenure which would have benefited the people, youth and farmers of the country.
Modi released the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll manifesto at the party headquarters here on Sunday. The manifesto has a special focus on the poor, youngsters, farmers and women
Kharge said the youth are protesting for jobs and prices of food items have skyrocketed due to inflation and people are troubled by it, but the manifesto has nothing to say on it.
Modi has only increased unemployment and inflation in the last 10 years, he charged.
“No accountability for old guarantees, just empty jugglery of words! ‘Modi ki Guarantee’ equals ‘warranty of jumlas (rhetoric),” he said in a post in Hindi, posing 14 questions to the PM.
Addressing a joint press conference, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said in his 2014 manifesto, Modi had promised to bring back black money by forming a special task force, but electoral bonds came instead.
He also promised to strengthen law and order in the North East, but today violence is continuing in Manipur, on which PM Modi is maintaining silence, Khera claimed.
Khera also alleged that Modi promised that poverty in 100 districts will be eradicated through a special package, but the figures of the Hunger Index reveal the truth.
The BJP had promised to build 100 new smart cities but they were never made and instead China is building “smart villages” on the border, the Congress leader said.
