Lok Sabha Polls 2024: 'Caste census, MSP' to take centre stage in Congress manifesto from Rahul Gandhi's Nyay Yatra

With just months away from the Lok Sabha elections, Congress in its manifesto is likely to announce caste census and promise on law on MSP (minimum support prices) to the farmers, a report by Hindustan Times has stated. In addition to this, a senior member of the Congress manifesto panel have also stated that it would contain SOPs for women, youth, farmers and workers.

Earlier on Saturday, Rahul Gandhi also said that the party's manifesto includes the promise to provide Minimum Support Price (MSP) to farmers legally if it came to power, and accused the BJP-led Union government of ignoring farmers' interests while working for big industrialists. Moreover, he also reiterated the demand for caste census and claimed that 73 percent of the country's population has no presence in most sectors of the economy as well as in the top levels of bureaucracy, adding that conducting a caste-based census will be the first task the INDIA bloc government will undertake after coming to power at the Centre.

Coming back to the report, the Congress manifesto will address the theme of justice and draw its ideological foundation from the ongoing Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (BJNY). His yatra has been centred on preserving the Constitution and highlighting the importance of social, political, and economic justice—all of which are guaranteed by the Preamble.

In order to discuss the draft manifesto, committee led by former finance minister P Chidambaram will hold a meeting on Monday i.e. on 4 March.

Another party representative emphasised the connection between the BJNY and the party's campaign pledges by pointing out that the Yatra's goal is to "identify methods to deliver justice to every Indian," as reported by HT. “And this would also