The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on April 14 released the election manifesto — ‘Sankalp Patra’ — for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP senior leaders at the party headquarters in New Delhi.
Mr. Modi released the party Lok Sabha manifesto which has a special focus on the poor, youth, farmers and women and asserted that the need for a stable government with a full majority was necessary when the world was passing through uncertain times. The Prime Minister handed over copies of the manifesto to the representatives of the four broad groups — Gareeb, Yuva, Annadata and Naari Shakti (GYAN) — who were beneficiaries of the government’s schemes.
Mr. Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the manifesto for the polls that are scheduled to commence from April 19.