From the Urdu Press: ‘SC madrasa order a relief for vulnerable kids; better for Cong to get rid of turncoats’

As the Lok Sabha poll battle gets more heated and fractious, the Congress continues to be beset with multiple crises, ranging from dissension and desertion to lack of a resonant narrative. Struggling to mount a robust campaign, the 138-year-old party released its manifesto, making a slew of promises centred on the plank of “work, wealth and welfare” in a bid to woo youth, women and marginalised sections. The Urdu dailies spotlighted it through reporting and analysis, even as they flagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s denouncement of the principal Opposition’s manifesto for having “the Muslim League’s imprint”.

Speaking about the Congress manifesto, the Hyderabad-based Siasat, in its April 7 editorial, says the party has laid down a roadmap for ensuring development and justice for all communities, including putting an end to “bulldozer justice” and ensuring that minorities too have the freedom of choice of dress, food, language and personal laws. “The Congress manifesto promises that the party will review and reverse all anti-people policies and moves of the Modi-led BJP government in the event of coming to power and that it will order a probe into the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme,” it writes.

Going on to add that it is the right of every party to present its manifesto to voters, it comments: “PM Modi has however chosen to tear into the Congress’s manifesto by alleging that it has the stamp of the Muslim League and the Leftists, and that it reflects the same thinking which was in the Muslim League at the time of Independence…This is negative politics.”

The electoral bonds scheme had turned into a “scam” through which several companies gave donation to political parties more than their own worth, even as some of them