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The Congress, which released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024, promised that it will take action to ease the tax burden on the salaried class if it comes back to power.
The discourse leading up to the polls will now intensify, with political parties beginning to release their manifestos.
After making the Old Pension Scheme a strong poll pitch ahead of Assembly polls and actually reverting to it in states where it came to power, the Congress party is learnt to have junked the promise of an OPS for government employees in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, and Rahu Gandhi will release the Congress manifesto for Lok Sabha polls on April 6 at a public meeting in Jaipur.
Tamil Nadu's DMK party on Wednesday released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The DMK manifesto was out in the presence of state CM CM MK Stalin, DMK MP Kanimozhi and other party leaders. The ruling party of Tamil Nadu also unveiled first list of candidates that will be contesting in the upcoming General Election. These include North Chennai-Kalanidhi Veeraswamy; South Chennai- Thamizhachi Thangapandian; Central Chennai-Dayanidhi Maran; Sriperumbudur- TR Baalu; Thiruvanamalai- Annadurai; Nilgiris-A Raja, and Thoothukudi-Kanimozhi.
In a bid to upgrade India's railway infrastructure and boost connectivity and speed, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to include a promise of multiple high-speed rail or bullet train corridors in the Lok Sabha 2024 manifesto. The party is considering including several HSR projects as a key promise for the next five years, reported Business Standard citing sources.
With a slew of promises mentioned in the manifesto for Odisha, the Congress, looking to revive its base in the state, has moulded its poll message around the welfare narrative. On Friday, the party released its manifesto for the Odisha Assembly polls, choosing to replicate the templates it followed in Karnataka and Telangana, where it won the Assembly polls last year. The promises indicate how the party is planning to counter the BJD’s narrative on welfare initiatives by targeting the constituency of voters who form the bedrock of the ruling party’s electoral success.
Inclusivity is at the heart of the poll campaigns and manifestoes (yet to be released) by political parties, especially the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. Over the years, parties have focused on "inclusivity" and "people-friendly" policies. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections too, political parties have upped their ante to seek public opinions to formulate their manifestos and campaigns.