The BJP will release its election manifesto - Sankalp Patra - for the Lok Sabha polls on Sunday, which will likely feature welfare measures for the youth, women, farmers and the poor - the "four castes" mentioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The election manifesto, known as the "Sankalp Patra," will be unveiled on Sunday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders will attend the unveiling of the manifesto at the party headquarters.
The theme of the manifesto will be "Modi's Guarantee: Developed India 2047," with a focus on cultural nationalism, reported ANI.
The party had formed a committee for the manifesto, chaired by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. Besides him, the panel had Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Minister Piyush Goyal as co-coordinators. Twenty-four other people were included in this committee as members.
The BJP sources received over 1.5 million suggestions for its manifesto, including more than 400,000 through the NaMo app and over 1.1 million through videos, according to party sources.
The ruling party's manifesto is widely anticipated as the BJP government has managed to fulfil most of its core ideological promises, including the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and the repeal of Article 370, of its earlier manifestos.
Speculations are that the party might include census and delimitation exercises on the Sankalp Patra. The party is likely to underline its support for the "one-nation one-election" idea, sources said.
Amid discussions on population control, it has to be seen whether the BJP will include any policy measures for this. The issue of the Uniform Civil Code, which remains a work in progress with the BJP pushing it in some of the states ruled by the party, may also feature in the manifesto.
With regard to transport and infrastructure, reports are that the party may also include a promise of multiple high-speed rail or bullet train corridors.
"People of the country have understood the difference between promises and their delivery. The manifesto will be and realistic... no promises that can't be fulfilled," The Times of India quoted a senior BJP functionary.
