Congress Manifesto

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The Congress party unveiled its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on April 5, at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi.

Here's a quick brief of what political parties are offering to win the electoral battle, whose results will be announced on February 11

For example, the manifesto promises 15,000 electric buses, but in the ads the figure reads 10,000

In the last column of its manifesto, the party said that it will pass the resolution in the first session of the Delhi Assembly after the elections and will ask the Centre to withdraw the Act

The manifesto also committed to spend 25 per cent budget each year on fighting pollution and improving transport facilities

Besides the loan waiver assurance, the manifesto -- released by AICC in-charge RPN Singh here -- pledged to free farmers from the clutches of money lenders and make the process of institutional loans

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Friday that the government is "clueless" about the economy and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should "steal" ideas from his party's Lok Sabha poll manifesto to tackle the "mess". Gandhi's attack on the government came over a media report which claimed rural consumption generally grows faster than urban consumption, but in this quarter the trend has been reversed with rural consumption being at its lowest in seven years for the quarter of September. "Rural India is in severe distress. The economy has sunk and the govt is clueless about what to do," the former Congress president said in a tweet. "PM & FM should steal ideas from manifesto.inc.in, where we had anticipated and set down detailed plans to tackle the mess," he also wrote on the microblogging site.

The catchphrase in the Congress manifesto is "Make for the World", even though it is silent on multi-brand retail

Chidambaram has been praised by Rahul Gandhi as one of the key authors of the manifesto. It does seem he has decided to forget the lessons that nearly cost Congress the 2009 elections.

Himachal Pradesh goes to polls on November 9