With its main focus on upliftment of women, youth, farmers and the poor, the Bharatiya Janata Party released its election manifesto — Sankalp Patra — for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls on Sunday. The party has said that it will implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and focus on ‘One Nation, One Poll’.
Along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar were also present at the event.
ONE NATION, ONE POLL
‘One Nation, One Poll’ or ‘One Nation, One Election’ is one of major highlights in the BJP’s 2024 election manifesto. The idea of ONOP refers to holding simultaneous elections across the country, which means, polls for Lok Sabha and state assemblies will be held together.
The High Level Committee led by former President Ram Nath Kovind submitted its 18,626 page-long report on ‘One Nation, One Poll’ to President Droupadi Murmu last month.
The report revealed that of the 21,558 public responses received by the committee, more than 80 per cent (17,342) support the idea of holding simultaneous polls in India. Only 4,216 responses opposed the idea.
“We will create the necessary infrastructure and ecosystem for strengthening good governance, digital governance and data governance in the country,” said PM Modi. “We will move ahead with the resolve of ‘One Nation, One Election’,” he added.
UNIFORM CIVIL CODE
Another high point of the saffron camp’s manifesto stood out to be the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) implementation.
With its focus on good governance, the BJP, like ONOP, considers implementing the Uniform Civil Code significant for the country, PM Modi said.
UCC, in the simplest terms, means one law which would be applicable to all religious communities in matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, maintenance etc. India has a uniform or one set of ‘criminal code’ for all its citizens but doesn’t have uniform civil law.
Article 44 of the Indian constitution which is part of the directive principles of the state policy reads, “The state shall endeavour to secure for citizens a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) throughout the territory of India.”
Earlier this month at CNN-News18’s Rising Bharat Summit, Home Minister Amit Shah had said, “This (UCC) has been the issue for the BJP (Jan Sangh) since 1950s. We truly believe there should be one law for all in a secular country like India.”
Shah also explained that the BJP accepted the UCC as the “guiding principle”, which BR Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad too believed in. They decided that the UCC should be implemented in the country during the right time, and the BJP government in Uttarakhand did it.
Uttarakhand, in February, became the first state in India to implement the UCC.
PM MODI SAYS SANKALP PATRA FOR BUILDING VIKSIT BHARAT
Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the election manifesto committee for the extensive work put into the preparation of this exceptional ‘Sankalp Patra’.
He said that the reason behind the entire nation “eagerly waiting” for the party’s manifesto is that “in 10 years, BJP has implemented every point of its manifesto as a guarantee.”
“This resolution letter empowers the four strong pillars of developed India – youth power, women power, poor and farmers,” PM Modi said, adding that “our focus is on dignity of life, quality of lives and jobs through investment.
He said, “Our focus is on ‘Nivesh se Naukri’, our manifesto is the reflection of India’s Youth”. “In the last ten years, around 25 crore people of Bharat have moved out of multidimensional poverty. This stands as a testament to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s strong commitment to a result-oriented approach to work,” he added.
It is Modi’s Guarantee that free ration scheme will continue to be operational for the next five years. “We will ensure that the poor person’s food plate is nutritious, satisfying, and affordable,” the PM said.
“Every senior citizen over the age of 70 years will be covered under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme,” the prime minister said, adding that they could belong to any economic background.
He said that in the work for the poor, “we will move forward with the manifesto of building three crore more houses”, PM Modi said.
The Mudra Yojana Loan ceiling limit that was Rs 10 lakh earlier, it will now be increased to Rs 20 lakh, the PM Modi noted as he spoke on the release of the BJP’s election manifesto. He added that the PM Swanidhi Yojana’s limit will also be increased to Rs 50,000, adding that it will be applicable to tier two and tier three cities as well.
The last 10 years have been dedicated to women’s dignity and new opportunities for women, he said, the coming five years will be of new participation of women power.
“In the last ten years, around 10 crore women have associated with self-help groups. We have decided to train the women involved in these SHGs in the fields of IT, education, health, retail and tourism,” the prime minister said, “Modi guarantees that 3 crore women will become Lakhpati Didis!”
The prime minister said, “In 10 years, we have provided many facilities for the disabled.” “Disabled people will now be given priority in the PM Housing Scheme, special efforts will be made to ensure that they get housing as per their special needs,” he added.
He said that the BJP will bring the “National Cooperative Policy”, adding that “the number of dairy and cooperative societies will also be increased to a great extent across the country.”
He said that more than 2 crore small farmers, who produce Shri Anna, will receive special benefit. He said that a lot of emphasis will be placed on Shri Anna to make India a “Global Nutrition Hub”.
We promised and implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act, now will be implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the prime minister said on one of the big promises of the BJP’s election manifesto.
PM Modi said that immediately after the June 4 results, work on BJP’s Sankalp Patra will begin. “The government has already started working on the 100-day action plan,” he said.
KEY FOCUS IN BJP’S 2024 ELECTION MANIFESTO
- The saffron camp focuses on the bringing forward more Lakhpati Didis. It promises to make electricity bills zero with the PM Surya Ghar Yojana.
- The party said that 2025 will be “Janjaatiya Year”. One of the major focuses in the BJP election manifesto is “One Nation, One Election” and “single electoral roll”.
- The party aims to make the nation the third largest economy in the world.
- The BJP manifesto set the goal of making India a “global manufacturing hub.
- The manifesto talks about ‘Virasat Se Vikas‘ and for the Ramayan Utsav to be celebrated across the world, promising more development in Ayodhya.
- The manifesto also talks about bringing laws against paper leak, education policy and hosting the Olympics in 2036.
- The manifesto guarantees to make three crore more Lakhpati Didis. It aims to bring more awareness on cervical cancer, increased number of washrooms for women and the implementation of the Mahila Shakti Vandan Act.
- The BJP, in its manifesto, has said that it will implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
- Migrant labourers and people under similar category will be linked to the e-Shram portal and they will be able to validate facilities provided under it.
- The BJP has also noted its focus on achieving a permanent seat for India t the United Nations Security Council.
- The problem of waiting list will be dealt with, the manifesto says. It has said that Bullet train will be brought in the North East.
- The manifesto looks at the expansion of 5G and the development of 6G.
- Every citizen above the age of 70 years will be provided free health treatment under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana.
- Transgender community will be given recognition and will be included in the Ayushman Yojana.
- The loan ceiling under the Mudra Yojana will be increased from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.
- Jan Jatiya Gaurav Diwas will be celebrated On Bhagwan Birsa Munda’s 105th birth anniversary.
- In the space world, the manifesto has said that India will send man on moon, make Bharatiya Antariksh Station.
WHAT JP NADDA SAID
BJP president JP Nadda said that it is important to remember that the party is an “ideology-based party”, adding that “BJP and initially from the Jansangh era, we are all involved in the journey of ideological foundation by continuously taking those ideas forward.”
“Every time elections come, we all have worked to carry forward the same ideological journey,” he said.
Saying that the BJP has delivered on everything that it has promised, Nadda said the prime minister simplified the vision for the common man to understand and called it “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas“.
“10 years are proof that Modi’s guarantee is a guarantee that the guarantee will be fulfilled,” the BJP national president said.
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