Of the 68-page manifesto the first 17 page of 'Appeal' by the party supremo Mamata Banerjee underlined how the BJP failed to keep their promises that they made before ascending to power in 2014.
While the Trinamool Congress’ election manifesto for 2014 put up what the party expected the new government to do for the country, this year, it has spent a big chunk of the manifesto in criticism of the ruling BJP and the biggest agenda of the party seems to be the removal of BJP from the Centre.
Of the 68-page manifesto the first 17 page of ‘Appeal’ by the party supremo Mamata Banerjee underlined how the BJP failed to make good of the promises it had made before ascending to power in 2014. From demonetisation to farmers’ suicide and the latest Pulwama terror attack, Mamata takes a potshot at the Modi government at several issues. The next section of eight pages is named ‘An account of Modi Government’s failures and misrule in the past five years’. There she talks about several alleged scams pointwise and how the country has suffered on several fronts under the Modi government. Mamata highlights the ‘failure of Make in India’ and alleges that under the present dispensation, the growth of the country has declined. She also alleges in this section that the PM had made baseless claims of success in several areas. Even the inside front and back covers contain anti-BJP slogans.
While the front inside cover has a picture of Mamata and the caption read – ‘We all stand for the country. Not for Modi. For the welfare of the people – Remove BJP, save the country’, the back inside cover has picture of the January 19 Brigade Parade Ground rally which the TMC had organised, saying that an autocracy or dictatorship was not required in India and that a democracy should be established. It also asks people to take a pledge to vote for TMC and ensure that there was no BJP government anymore. The third of the manifesto’s four sections says, ‘Today, Delhi needs a People’s Government’ and what the party would want government of Centre to do for people. It talks about various successes of West Bengal which the country could replicate. Aiming at projecting the party nationally, the Trinamool Congress manifesto for 2019 is focussed more on national issues. It talks about women empowerment, electoral reforms, protection of the independence of the judiciary and give special focus on the backward districts of the country. In the final section Mamata paints a rosy picture of West Bengal claiming that an overall development had been brought in by the government in the last seven and a half years.
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