New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will release its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections at the party headquarters in Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.
The party’s manifesto called “sankalp patra”- is likely to include planks of welfare and development schemes besides a roadmap for ‘viksit Bharat’. With PM Modi constantly highlighting his government’s priority for the poor, the youth, women and farmers, the ruling BJP is likely to give prominence to the issues related to them. PM Modi and other senior leaders will attend the unveiling of the manifesto on the day coinciding with the birth anniversary of Dalit leader B R Ambedkar.
The BJP had last month announced the constitution of a 27-member committee under defence minister and former BJP president Rajnath Singh for preparation of its manifesto.
The committee has 11 ministers besides four chief ministers of the party-ruled states. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was appointed the convener of the committee, with Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal being the co-convener. The manifesto committee has one BJP leader from each of the minority communities, including Sikhs, Muslims and Christians.
