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Asserting that the country is seeking a change, the Congress on Tuesday said the party’s Lok Sabha election manifesto would focus on ensuring justice to people based on five “Nyay pillars” and claimed the BJP’s ‘guarantees’ would meet the same fate as the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004.
The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s top decision-making body, discussed the party’s manifesto for over three hours and decided to reach out to every household with its five “Nyay” guarantees for the youth, women, workers, farmers and the marginalised sections.
Sources said the manifesto also includes the promise of implementing the old pension scheme and a law to ensure independence of constitutional institutions and stop “misuse” of agencies. “These five guarantees are going to be a game-changer in this election,” party leader K C Venugopal said.
Venugopal said the Congress is fully prepared for Lok Sabha polls and will launch a massive campaign “to take its guarantees to every household across the country in the next few days”.
He derided BJP’s “guarantees” as “jumlas” (rhetoric) and “a bunch of lies”. The party is fighting the elections on the issue of ‘five nyay’ (justices) — ‘Bhagidari Nyay’, ‘Kisan Nyay’, ‘Nari Nyay’, ‘Shramik Nyay’ and ‘Yuva Nyay’ — giving 25 guarantees, five under each category, that have been announced by the Congress president and Rahul Gandhi.
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