After an embarrassingly long delay, the BJP finally released its manifesto for the upcoming polls and has announced various measures to shore up the Indian economy and reform administrative processes in the country.
“We will do what it takes to make this country a great country…We have a strong leader in the form of Narendra Modi who will make the nation a greater one,” senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi said today.
Party president Rajnath Singh attempted to defend the delay in the release of the manifesto by saying that the party had attempted to bring out a document that it would stick to.
“We have not just fulfilled our obligation to release a manifesto but we will fulfil all the promises that we have made if we come to power,” Singh said.
Singh said that it had been made out like its Prime Ministerial candidate was ‘politically untouchable’.
“If there is a case where one person who has been targeted the most in India’s political history it is Narendra Modi,” he said.
The party has listed its objectives in various categories: the first of which is what it will attend to immediately including inflation, employment, entrepreneurship, bringing back black money in foreign accounts and tackling policy paralysis.
In its promises to tackle corruption, the BJP has said that it will focus on public awareness, e-governnance and rationalisation of the tax regime.
The party has promised to improve centre-state relations in the nation in which it has mentioned region specific plans with Jammu and Kashmir, northeastern states and Seemandhra regions getting special mention. It has also promised to stregthen the panchayati raj system.
The party has promised institutional reforms across government structures including police, judicial and administrative reforms. It also promised electoral reforms in consultation with other parties, which include holding state and national elections at the same time to ensure money was saved.
Here’s the full text of the party’s manifesto: