Congress Election Manifesto 2024 Key Highlights: Right to apprenticeship, a legal guarantee for MSP, and passing a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs are among the promises made by the Congress in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls.
Congress Manifesto 2024 Highlights: Congress leaders P. Chidambaram, Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal releasing the party’s manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi. (Express Photo by Chitral Khambhati)
Congress Manifesto 2024 ‘Nyay Patra’ Key Highlights: With just a fortnight remaining for the Lok Sabha Polls, the Congress released its manifesto at its party headquarters in New Delhi on Friday.
The manifesto, titled ‘Nyay Patra’ was released in the presence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal and P Chidambaram. It focused on five “pillars of justice” (Yuva Nyay, Naari Nyay, Kisaan Nyay, Shramik Nyay and Hissedari Nyay) with 25 guarantees under them.
Right to apprenticeship, a legal guarantee for MSP, and passing a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs are among the promises made by the Congress in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls.
Here are some of the key promises made in the manifesto:
📌 A nationwide socio-economic and caste census
📌 A constitutional amendment to raise 50 per cent cap on reservations for SC, ST and OBC communities
📌 Ten per cent quota in jobs, educational institutions for EWS will be implemented for all castes, communities
📌 Legal guarantee to Minimum Support Prices (MSP)
📌 Immediately restore Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood
📌 Scrapping the the Agnipath Scheme
📌 The Rajasthan model of cashless insurance of up to Rs 25 lakh will be adopted for universal healthcare
📌 National minimum wage will be Rs 400 per day
📌 Launch of the Mahalakshmi scheme to provide Rs 1 lakh per year to every poor Indian family.
📌 Scrapping contractualisation of regular jobs in govt, PSUs and ensure regularisation of such appointments.
