BJP announces Election Manifesto Committee; no one from J&K, Ladakh, Manipur, Punjab, Sikkim etc in the list
Kanwar Inder singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ March 30,2024
Today, Bhartiya janta Party (BJP) president JP Nadda announced 27 members Election Manifesto Committee. The committee will be headed by senior party leader and Union Minister Rajnath Singh and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman as the convenor of the committee.
The committee comprises 11 ministers and CMs of BJP ruled states and other key leaders are included in the manifesto making committee for the LS elections
BJP announces Election Manifesto Committee; no one from J&K, Ladakh, Manipur, Punjab, Sikkim etc in the list. In this Election Manifesto Committee, the saffron party failed to include any member from many states like Manipur, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana etc along with key union territories like Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh etc
“BJP is anti Punjab from the day one. The party has no clear agenda for Punjab. The party has always discriminates with the state. It is highly condemnable act of them. Now, their double standard has come to fore before the elections itself. How can they include anyone from Punjab in the Election Manifesto Committee when they are not releasing pending funds to the state, including GST, RDF, NHM etc “ said aam aadmi party spokesperson Malwinder Singh Kang.
“It is highly condemnable that the national party BJP has ignored key states, union territories by not including any member from them in its Election Manifesto Committee. BJP is trying hard to enter Punjab. Giving no representation in the Election Manifesto Committee the saffron party has given an indication that the party is befooling the residents of the state and is not serious about border state’s development or local key issues. They have no agenda for state/UT be it Punjab, Himachal, Manipur, Telangana, Sikkim or Ladakh” said Arshdeep Singh Kler, spokesperson of shiromani akali dal
AK Singh a businessman said ” the party which is beating trumpet on abrogation of article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh failed to find any representative in the election manifesto committee. What will they do without having any knowledge about the local issues, problems? How will they address those issues when they have no knowledge, intimation about them”