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“All of us have a responsibility to ensure that our manifesto gets the widest publicity in different states and our commitments are taken to every household across the country and people at large,” he added | (PTI Photo)
Asserting that the nation is searching for a change, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday mentioned the ‘ensures’ touted by the current authorities would meet the identical destiny because the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004.
Addressing the assembly of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the social gathering’s prime decision-making physique, to debate and approve the social gathering’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, he urged all social gathering leaders and employees to take each problem raised within the social gathering manifesto to each village and city and to each family throughout the nation.
“The country is fervently demanding a change. The guarantees currently being touted by the present government would have the same fate as that of the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004,” he mentioned in his deal with on the CWC meet.
“All of us have a responsibility to ensure that our manifesto gets the widest publicity in different states and our commitments are taken to every household across the country and people at large,” he added.
Kharge additionally mentioned that Congress employees in villages, cities must rise to take the social gathering manifesto to each family.
The Congress president mentioned no matter has been promised within the manifesto, will probably be strictly carried out.
Before making guarantees within the manifesto, an in-depth deliberation has been made to make sure that these guarantees are implementable, he mentioned.
“It is because of this very fact that, right from 1926, the Congress party’s manifesto has been regarded as a ‘document of trust and commitment’,” he mentioned.
Kharge additionally lauded the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, saying by means of it the Congress was in a position to attract the nation’s consideration to the true problem of individuals.
“These were not just political yatras but will be noted for the largest mass contact movement in our political history. One can’t undermine the fact that nobody in our times has undertaken such a massive exercise. Both these yatras managed to take the issue of the people to national centre stage,” he mentioned referred to the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the simply concluded Nyay Yatra.
Kharge and former social gathering chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi attended the assembly. Other senior leaders, together with Ambika Soni, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, P Chidambaram, Digvijaya Singh, Ajay Maken and Kumari Selja, had been additionally current on the essential assembly, the place Chidambaram learn out the important thing parts of the social gathering manifesto.
Chidambaram chairs the manifesto committee of the social gathering, which has already introduced a replica of the draft doc to the CWC for its nod.
The CWC would grant its approval and provides a last form to the draft manifesto which carries the 5 ‘ensures’ for justice.
The social gathering is preventing the elections on the difficulty of ‘5 nyay’ (justices) — ‘Bhagidari Nyay’, ‘Kisan Nyay’, ‘Nari Nyay’, ‘Shramik Nyay’ and ‘Yuva Nyay’ — giving 25 ensures, 5 for every nyay, which have been introduced by the Congress president and Rahul Gandhi.
Sources mentioned the social gathering’s Central Election Committee (CEC), chaired by Kharge, would focus on and finalise its candidates for remaining seats within the night.
The Congress has to this point introduced 82 candidates for the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls starting April 19.
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First Published: Mar 19 2024 | 1:03 PM IST
