New Delhi: Here are the highlights of the BJP manifesto for General Elections 2014, released on Monday:
- The party reiterates its stand to explore all possibilities within framework of Constitution to facilitate construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
- Reiterating its stand on Art 370 and discussing with all stakeholders for abrogation of the Article.
- Ensuring minimisation of black money and setting up of a task force for this purpose.
- Putting in place strict measures and special courts to stop hoarding and black marketing.
- Setting up a Price Stabilisation Fund.
- Unbundling FCI operations into procurement, storage and distribution for greater efficiency.
- Evolving a single National Agriculture Market.
- Promoting and support area specific crops and vegetables linked to food habits of the people.
- Developing high impact domains like labour intensive manufacturing, tourism, and strengthening traditional employment bases of agriculture and allied industry.
- Harnessing opportunities provided by the upgradation of infrastructure and housing.
- Encouraging and empowering youth for self employment and transforming employment exchanges into career centres.
- Eliminating corruption through public awareness, e-governance, rationalisation and simplification of tax regime.
- Harmonising Centre-state relations by evolving model of national development driven by the states.
- Setting up a Team India initiative which will include the PM and CMs as equal partners.
- Ensure fiscal autonomy of states and creation of regional councils of states of common problems and concerns.
- National Development Council and Inter-state Council will be revived and made into active body.
- Involving state governments in promotion of foreign trade and commerce.
- Greater decentralisation through smaller states.
- Special emphasis on improving connectivity in Northeast region.
- Massive infrastructure development in NE region.
- Complete all pending fencing work along the India-Bangladesh and India-Myanmar border.
- Dealing with insurgency with a firm hand.
