Why the BJP Elections 2014 Manifesto is Better than Congress ?

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its manifesto and the Indian media has blown out of proportion certain things like Uniform Civil Code and Construction of Ram Mandir which are not the Central Theme of the BJP manifesto (Copy of Which is Sent to us by the BJP Manifesto Cell]

The Political Think tanks banking the candidature of the Mass Leader Shri Narendra Modi have roped in several leading Economists from India to give a direction to better address the Cores Issues of Inflation, Job Creation, Balanced Development of Infrastructure, etc. Based on their recommendations here are the key excerpts,

Check inflation by setting up a price stabilisation fund, unbundling the Food Corporation of India, disseminate real-time data to farmers and evolve a single National Agriculture Market.

Promote job creation by developing labour-intensive manufacturing (textile, footwear, electronics assembly etc.), tourism, agriculture, retail, infrastructure, housing and by promoting self-employment among youth.

Economic revival to be promoted by (a) restoring confidence (b) ensuring fiscal discipline without making compromises on development and asset creation (c) undertaking banking reform and (d) encouraging savings.

We said this even before the Manifesto was out – Evolve a model of national development driven by states, and grant fiscal autonomy to the states.

Rural prosperity: Encourage rural development through improving village-level infrastructure, job creation, security in rural areas and linkages to markets.

Urbanisation: To build 100 new cities enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure. The approach to urban development will be based on integrated habitat development – building on concepts like twin cities and satellite towns.

Infrastructure: Expedite work on the freight corridors and attendant industrial corridors, national highway construction, connect all villages through all-weather roads, port and airport development, set up gas grids, national optical-fibre network and modernise railways. A low-cost housing programme is also planned.

The Congress Manifesto focusses on entitlements and looks more of an empty talk, while the BJP is relying on effective delivery/implementation and better rural infrastructure to result in rural prosperity. Rather than promoting higher support prices as promised by the Congress, the BJP plans to develop the agriculture sector by increasing public investment and boosting productivity. Overall, the BJP?s policies seem more centre-right, as expected, versus Congress’ more centre-left policies. We believe the policies laid out
in the BJP’s manifesto appear both sound and prudent and Narendra Modi has proved himself to be the only Politician to be capable of execution.

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