BJP forms election manifesto committee under Rajnath Singh for Lok Sabha elections

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Bharatiya Janata Party has formed an election manifesto committee with Rajnath Singh as its chairperson, as the ruling party seeks to return to power in India for a third straight term.
BJP has appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as the convener of the election manifesto panel, while her cabinet colleague and Trade Minister Piyush Goyal will be the co-convener.

Nearly 97 crore eligible Indian voters will over six weeks and seven phases starting April 19 decide which political party will form the next government in the world’s largest democracy.

Following slogans like 'abki baar Modi sarkar' in 2014 and 'phir ek baar Modi sarkar' in 2019, the BJP's new campaign chant in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is 'abki baar 400 paar'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims for a third consecutive term and has said that the BJP will secure 370 seats out of the 543 contested in India's Lok Sabha elections.

Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Smriti Irani, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Kiren Rijiju and Arjun Munda, among others, will be members of the 27-member election manifesto committee.

Also, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bhupender Yadav, Vishnu Deo Sai, Bhupender Patel, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Mohan Yadav, Vasundhara Raje and Ravishankar Prasad are among the prominent BJP leaders who will be members of the election manifesto committee.

Chief Minister of Assam BJP has also appointed Himanta Biswa Sarma to be part of the team who will formulate BJP's election manifesto.