PM Modi's guarantees will meet 'India Shining' fate in Lok Sabha Elections 2024 : Malikarjun Kharge at CWC meet

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections saying that the country is fervently demanding a change. Kharge said the Prime Narendra Modi's ‘guarantees’ highlighting in the BJP's poll campaign will mee the same fate as party's "India Shining" slogan ahead of 2004 general elections. "Country is fervently demanding a change.

The guarantees currently being touted by the Modi Govt would have the same fate as that of BJP's "India Shining" slogan of 2004," Kharge said in his opening remarks at the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) held on March 19. 'India Shining' was a political slogan referring to economic optimism in India used by the then-ruling BJP under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. But BJP lost the elections and Congress-led UPA came to power.

Kharge also showered praises from Rahul Gandhi's just-concluded Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Rahul concluded his 63-day long march in Mumbai by paying tributes to Dr B R Ambedkar and reading the Preamble of the Constitution on March 16, the day the schedule for Lok Sabha polls 2024 was announced. Kharge said that the Congress manifesto was discussed at the CWC meeting.

"The five pillars of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra - Kisan Nyay, Yuva Nyay, Naari Nyay, Shramik Nyay and Hissedari Nyay have five guarantees each. Right from 1926, Congress Party’s manifesto has been regarded as a "document of trust and commitment," he said. The Congress President also said that all leaders of the party have a responsibility to ensure that the party manifesto gets the widest publicity in different states and the party's commitment is taken to every household across the country.