NEW DELHI : The Congress today released the ‘Nyay Patra’, the party manifesto, for the 2024 General Elections, promising ‘Paanch Nyay’, five pillars of justices with 25 guarantees, which include, ‘Yuva Nyay’, ‘Naari Nyay’, ‘Kisaan Nyay’, ‘Shramik Nyay’ and ‘Hissedari Nyay’.
The Nyaya Patra was released at the AICC headquarters by the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Ms Sonia Gandhi, former president Rahul Gandhi, Manifesto Committee Chairman P. Chidambaram and General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal.
The main guarantees include caste census, legal guarantee on MSP, removing the fifty percent cap on reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs, providing 50 percent reservation to women in central government jobs, waiving of all educational loans up to March 15, 2024, filling the 30 lakh vacancies pending in various central government departments at the earliest, raising the minimum daily wage to Rs 400 and introducing the Rajasthan Model of universal healthcare with insurance cover up to Rs 25 lakhs for everyone.
The party also promised to scrap the Agnipath scheme of recruitment in Armed Forces and restore the earlier system.
The party announced that it will provide legal guarantee for the MSP of various crops which will be fixed on the basis of the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission.
As promised repeatedly by the former party president Rahul Gandhi, the Congress guaranteed that it will conduct a nationwide socio-economic and caste Census to enumerate the castes and sub-castes and their socio-economic conditions.
The party said, it will scrap the fifty percent cap on reservations of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and Other Backward Castes, through a constitutional amendment.
The Congress ‘Nyay Patra’ promised to abolish application fees of examinations for recruitment in various government departments.
Besides, the party will also provide one time relief for students and will write off all the student and educational loans, due up to March 15, 2024 and the banks will be compensated for it by the government.
In a major step towards providing equality to women, the party promised it will reserve one-half (50 per cent) of central government jobs for women starting in 2025.
Promising to launch the Mahalakshmi scheme, the party said it will provide ₹1 lakh per year to every poor Indian family as an unconditional cash transfer. The poor will be identified among the families in the bottom of the income pyramid, the party added.
