On Page 8 of its 'Nyay Patra', the Congress party had declared [pdf] to give a 'fair share' of opportunities to minority communities in public work contracts.
While Congress manifesto talks about socio-economic survey, on 6th April, Rahul Gandhi had said, "We will first conduct a nationwide caste census to determine how many people belong to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and minorities. After that, we will conduct a financial and institutional survey in a historic step to ascertain the distribution of wealth.”
Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, abrogation of Article 370, boost to infrastructure, women's reservation bill and CAA are among the top promises that were mentioned in the BJP manifesto in 2014 and 2019.
Unlike the manifestos of the Congress party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the BJP laid out a clear vision to take the nation forward on the path of progress and development.
Back in 2020, when the country battling the Covid pandemic, Yogendra Yadav along with several ‘economists, intellectuals and activists’ had proposed a 7-point action plan to combat the pandemic. In this, point number 7.1 had called for the government to take over all properties of private citizens and treat them as national resources.
Despite being well aware that Rohit Vemula was not a Dalit and that his suicide had nothing to do with caste discrimination, the Congress party chose to politically exploit his untimely death in its manifesto.
The party has promised that the banks will be compensated by the government for writing off student loans. The write-off is mentioned as a one-time measure of relief "due to widespread unemployment".
In an attempt to present a new edition of the freebies it offered in Karnataka's assembly elections in 2023, the Congress party has ended up envisioning a 'manifesto' to bankrupt India.
*To make our Dravidian model all over India this election manifesto will help. I am sure we will win not only 40 seats in Tamil Nadu bit our alliance will win at the center as well" Kanimozhi added.