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
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.
UNIFORM CIVIL CODE
With its focus on good governance, the BJP, like ONOP, considers implementing the Uniform Civil Code significant for the country, PM Modi said.
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.”
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.
PM MODI SAYS SANKALP PATRA FOR BUILDING VIKSIT BHARAT
“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.
“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.
“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!”
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.
KEY FOCUS IN BJP’S 2024 ELECTION MANIFESTO
The manifesto also talks about bringing laws against paper leak, education policy and hosting the Olympics in 2036.
Every citizen above the age of 70 years will be provided free health treatment under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana.
WHAT JP NADDA 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“.
