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BJP manifesto on April 7 – the day polls begin

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The BJP will at last release its manifesto for the Lok Sabha election starting on April 7 on the same day here. The party's chargesheet against the Congress and the UPA government will be released today.

The party had planned to release the manifesto sometime between April 1 and April 4 but they could not manage to get the top leaders, including prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and president Rajnath Singh to be present in Delhi for the occasion. It is expected that Modi will be there at the release of the manifesto.

The other reason for the delay was that senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi who is the head of the manifesto committee had to be away to start his campaign work in his new constituency, Kanpur. He was shifted out of Varanasi as Modi is fighting from the temple town. So Joshi had to shuffle between Kanpur and Delhi and he also had to get the nod from other senior leaders for the final text.

Party sources denied that there were any problems or differences of opinion about the text of the manifesto, though it is quite clear that it will reflect the Modi thrust.

The chargesheet which was prepared by a committee headed by deputy leader in Rajya Sabha, Ravi Shankar Prasad, was ready for quite some time. But it could not be made public because it had to come close to the release of the manifesto.

The charge sheet is being projected as a thorough report card of the acts of omission and commission of the UPA government in the last 10 years and it seems that most of the follies of the Manmohan Singh government pertain to UPA-2.

Apart from the many scams running into lakhs of crores of rupees, the chargesheet includes other acts of indiscretion and constitutional impropriety, where the credibility of institutions like the Joint Parliamentary Committee, appointment of Comptroller and Auditor General and the Chgief Vigilance Commissioner have been eroded.

A party source involved with the writing of the chargesheet has also said the Congress has failed to fulfil many of the promises it had made in its 2009 manifesto.

For the first time, the party has crowd-sourced inputs from members of the public across the country for the chargesheet, all of which could not be incorporated but which revealed the anger and dissatisfaction of the people with the UPA government.

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