Congress Manifesto for Lak Sabha Election 2024
Congress Party released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024 (Nyay Patra 2024) and party focussing on work, welfare and wealth. The party has called the manifesto “Nyay Patra”. The party has promised to restore Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, giving legal guarantee to MSP, among others.
Congress Manifesto 2024 Highlights
- Focus on five ‘pillars of justice’ — including ‘Yuva Nyay’, ‘Naari Nyay’, ‘Kisaan Nyay’, ‘Shramik Nyay’ and ‘Hissedari Nyay’
- Guarantee of national minimum wage at ₹400 per day
- Launch of Mahalakshmi scheme to provide ₹1 lakh per year to every poor Indian family
- Promise to fill nearly 30 lakh vacancies in sanctioned posts at various levels in the central government
- Implement 10% quota in jobs, educational institutions for economically weaker sections (EWS) for all castes, communities without discrimination
- Rajasthan model of cashless insurance of up to ₹25 lakh will be adopted for universal healthcare
- Constitutional amendment to raise the 50% cap on reservations for SC, ST and OBC
- A nationwide socio-economic and caste census
- A new ‘right to apprenticeship act’ to provide one-year apprenticeship to every diploma holder or graduate below age of 25
- Legal guarantee to Minimum Support Prices announced by the government every year as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission
- Launch of an urban employment programme guaranteeing work for urban poor in reconstruction, renewal of urban infrastructure