The International Spectator - India Congress manifesto pledges millions of jobs
India’s embattled ruling Congress party promised Wednesday to create millions of jobs and revive a sliding economy as it unveiled a populist manifesto aimed at averting electoral defeat.
Reaching out to Congress’s traditional constituency of poor voters, party leader Rahul Gandhi pledged “growth for all” as he released the manifesto at a rally for the general elections which kick off April 7.
Gandhi declared $1 trillion would be spent to improve India’s decrepit infrastructure, roads and railways if his party was returned to power for a third term.
“We are going to construct a manufacturing backbone that will give millions of people jobs,” and “ensure everybody has access to quality health care,” Gandhi, scion of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty which has given India three prime ministers.
Opinion polls suggest Congress, which has dominated Indian politics since independence from Britain in 1947, could lose more than half of its seats in the lower house of parliament when results are announced May 16.
The right-of-centre Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to come to power with the help of small regional parties.
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India’s embattled ruling Congress party promised Wednesday to create millions of jobs and revive a sliding economy as it unveiled a populist manifesto aimed at averting electoral defeat.
Reaching out to Congress’s traditional constituency of poor voters, party leader Rahul Gandhi pledged “growth for all” as he released the manifesto at a rally for the general elections which kick off April 7.
Gandhi declared $1 trillion would be spent to improve India’s decrepit infrastructure, roads and railways if his party was returned to power for a third term.
“We are going to construct a manufacturing backbone that will give millions of people jobs,” and “ensure everybody has access to quality health care,” Gandhi, scion of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty which has given India three prime ministers.
Opinion polls suggest Congress, which has dominated Indian politics since independence from Britain in 1947, could lose more than half of its seats in the lower house of parliament when results are announced May 16.
The right-of-centre Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to come to power with the help of small regional parties.
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