National Parties of India

4 political parties of India are:

1. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Important Points of Manifesto:

• Achieve the target of doubling farmers income by 2022
• Launch a pension scheme to ensure social security of farmers after 60
years of age
• Complete all irrigation projects under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi
Yojana
• Provide short term agriculture loans up to RS 1 lakh at
0%interest rate for 1-5 years
• Work towards assisting maximum number of fishermen
• Ensure disposal of liquid waste and reuse of wastewater
• Digitising land records
• Youth and education
• Aim to cover all the secondary schools under operation digital board
• Work towards increasing the number of seats in premier management institutes, premier engineering
institutes and premier law institutes
• Ensure a pucca house to every family
• Ensure LPG gas cylinder connection to all poor rural households
• Ensure 100%electrification, access to safe and portable drinking water and a toilet to every household
• Ensure every citizen has a bank account
• Ensure 100% waste collection under Swachh Bharat Mission
• Double the length of national highways
• Start developing smart railway stations across India
• Work towards equipping all main railway station with Wi-Fi facility
• Try to ensure electrification of all railway tracks by 2022
• Establish 1.5 lakh health and wellness centres
• Start setting up 75 new medical colleges
• Ensure a drastic reduction in cases of tuberculosis
• Aim to reduce the malnutrition level
• Achieve the goal of clean ganga by 2022
• Work toward increasing female workforce participation rate
• Ensure full immunisation coverage of children
• Strive to make all government buildings accessible
• Try to make doing business easier
• Ensure the availability of banking services within 5kms of every individual
• Work towards eliminating crop residue burning to reduce air pollution
• Put an Indian in space in an Indian spacecraft
BJP represents:
2. Indian National Congress (INC)
Key points of Manifesto:
• Economic security to low-income families
• Focus of financial consolidation, price
stability and growth
• Training and employment opportunities to 10
crore youth in 5 years
• Right to healthcare and housing
• Fixed pension scheme for the aged and disabled
• All export taxes to be waived off
• 8% growth rate in 3 years
• 10% growth in manufacturing, emphasis on SMEs
• Ensure enactment of remaining anti-corruption bills as priority
• Employment for SC, ST and OBCs

• Investment of $1 trillion in next decade on infrastructure

INC represents:
 3. Biju Janata Dal (BJD)
Key points in Manifesto:
• KALIA Commission to be set up to recommend

revision of rates after three years

• Interest free crop loans up to ₹1 lakh

• ₹50,000 crore to be invested to increase are under irrigation

• ₹5,000 crore Govt business to women SHGs

• Interest free loans to SHGs up to ₹5 lakh

• Marriage assistance of ₹25,000 for daughters of poor families

• 75pc reservation of jobs for local youth in new industries

• One time start-up allowance of ₹10 lakh to 10,000 youth

• Education loan at 0 pc interest

• Biju express way to connect North with South and East with West

• Cuttack and Bhubaneswar to be connected, with metro railway

BJD represents:
4. All India Trinamool Congress (TMC)

Key points in Manifesto:

• Fifth largest economy with GDP size of over

₹12.5 Lakh Crore and annual per capital income
of more than ₹2.5 Lakh

• 35 Lakh people uplifted to reduce below poverty line population to 5% from

20% in 2011

• 5 Lakh new jobs per year to be created to halve the unemployment rate

• Rank in top 3 States in the tourism sector

• Duare Sarkar and Paray Samadhan to be held twice a year

• Setting up of High-Performance Delivery Unit for effective delivery of all key

measures

• Revival of Legislative Council

TMC represents: