The Bharatiya Janata Party will release its Lok Sabha polls manifesto at the party headquarters in Delhi on Sunday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The unveiling of the Sankalpa Patra coincides with the birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar, a towering dalit leader and an architect of the Indian Constitution.
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 400,000 suggestions were received through the NaMo app.
Party sources told PTI that 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.
The 24-member manifesto committee has Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as coordinator and Union Minister Piyush Goyal as the co-coordinator.
With the census and delimitation exercise likely to be held on the watch of the next government, political watchers are keeping an eye on whether the BJP will touch on issues like concerns of southern states over the delimitation exercise.
