The Congress is likely to release its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections on April 5 in the presence of top leaders, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former party presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, sources said on March 29.
They also said that Mr. Kharge and the Gandhis are likely to address public rallies in Jaipur and Hyderabad on April 6 where they will also highlight the key elements of the Congress manifesto.
According to the sources, the party leadership would launch the poll manifesto on April 5 at the All India Congress Committee headquarters.
The Congress’ manifesto will lay emphasis on ‘Paanch Nyay’ or five pillars of justice, including ‘Yuva Nyay’, ‘Naari Nyay’, ‘Kisaan Nyay’, ‘Shramik Nyay’ and ‘Hissedari Nyay’ as well as the guarantees made by it to the people as part of its poll promises for 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
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The Congress will launch its ‘Ghar Ghar Guarantee’ campaign on April 3 under which party leaders will reach out to more than eight crore households across the country.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with BJP workers through the Namo App and discussed field work at the booth level for the Lok Sabha polls with them.
Referring to the government’s focus on women-led development, Mr. Modi sought to know from a party worker the schemes that have been the most liked and talked about by women. The Prime Minister expressed happiness that the party worker has been working at the grassroots level.
A day after last date of filing nomination papers for the first phase poll on April 19, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress-led mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) in Bihar announced seat sharing in coalition on Friday.
As per the announcement made by senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui, RJD will contest on 26 seats, Congress on nine and the Left parties on remaining five seats. Bihar has a total of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies.
A majority of the candidates for the 17 LS constituencies in Telangana hail from BRS and among them, there are those who got tickets within days of joining the party and there are cases of tickets being announced before even the ‘defections’ had happened.
This has been causing much hand-wringing and consternation among those who have invested years with the party and its ideology. Save for party chief and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy (Secunderabad) and national general secretary Bandi Sanjay Kumar (Karimnagar), the rest are either ‘newcomers’ or turncoats.
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