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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.
“I have nothing to be ashamed of about my prime ministership,” Dr Manmohan Singh told me when I met him in August 2023.
In 2019, the Congress’s first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections — 11 from Uttar Pradesh and four from Gujarat — featured both Amethi and Raebareli. Sonia Gandhi and then Congress president Rahul Gandhi contested from their family’s traditional bastions, with the former winning and the latter losing to the BJP’s Smriti Irani. Perhaps aware that his position in Amethi was shaky, Rahul, in a surprise move, also entered the fray from Wayanad in Kerala, a constituency he currently represents.
With two empty chairs reserved for former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – leaders of their parties, they are currently behind bars in cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate – wives Kalpana Soren and Sunita Kejriwal took centre stage in more ways than one at the INDIA bloc rally in Delhi Sunday.
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.
India's opposition leaders have shown solidarity with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following his arrest by the ED on Thursday. With this, Kejriwal has joined a list of prominent leaders who have come under the ED scanner since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came into power in 2014.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday dismissed the Congress’ attack on the central government over freezing of its bank accounts.