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One day after releasing its manifesto, “Nyay Patra”, for the Lok Sabha elections at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi, the Congress leadership is set to hold rallies in Rajasthan and Telangana on Saturday to ‘publicly launch’ the manifesto.
Facing an uphill battle in the Lok Sabha elections and struggling to win back voter confidence, the Congress Friday came out with its manifesto, announcing a raft of promises to woo the marginalised, such as lifting the 50% cap on quota for SCs, STs and OBCs in addition to reservation in private educational institutions. The party has outlined steps to create jobs, hoping those would strike a chord with the youth, even as it has offered cash doles to women besides pledging to reserve 50% of central government jobs for them.
With a photo of his father, the late DMK stalwart and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, looking over his shoulder at his Chhitaranjan Salai residence here, CM M K Stalin exudes confidence ahead of, what he calls, “a second struggle for Independence” in the coming elections.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that the coalition of Opposition parties, INDIA bloc, will decide its prime minister candidate after winning the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. After the Congress released its poll manifesto on Friday, Gandhi was asked who could be the PM face of the Congress — Rahul Gandhi himself or Mallikarjun Kharge.
In his first remarks as he joined the Shinde Shiv Sena after being expelled from the Congress for “indiscipline” and “anti-party statements”, former Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam hit out at the party, calling it “organisationally disturbed”.
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.
Kerala's Wayanad is among the Lok Sabha constituencies set to witness a tough contest between INDIA bloc allies. The Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI), which are part of the Opposition's INDIA bloc, will be contesting against each other for the key Wayanad seat.