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| Lok Sabha election 2024: World’s biggest poll kicks off as India begins voting - BBC News | Lok Sabha election 2024: World’s biggest poll kicks off as India begins voting - BBC News |
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| The BJP manifesto praises the government's track record from the past decade and highlights the benefits of its welfare schemes. | |
| The party bats for its government to be voted back into power in the name of stability and says it will turn India into a developed nation by 2047. It promises to implement a Uniform Civil Code - a single personal law for all citizens irrespective of religion, gender and sexual orientation - and a women’s reservation law passed in parliament last year. | |
| It also promises to implement one of its key talking points - "one nation, one election" or simultaneous federal and state polls - if voted back to power. | |
| The opposition Congress party’s manifesto highlights unemployment and inflation in the country, and promises to deliver justice to oppressed communities. | |
| It promises to give a one-year apprenticeship to every diploma holder or graduate younger than 25 years, a legal guarantee of assured prices for certain crops, raising the quota cap for socially-disadvantaged caste-based groups and tribespeople, and full statehood for Jammu and Kashmir. | |
| If it comes to power, the party says, it will investigate a controversial scheme introduced by the BJP government that allowed political donors to remain anonymous. | |
| The Trinamool Congress, which governs West Bengal and is part of an opposition coalition, says the bloc will repeal a controversial citizenship law - which critics call anti-Muslim - if it comes to power. | |
| The Communist Party of India (Marxist), another member of the opposition coalition, has promised to repeal "draconian" anti-terror laws such as the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and promises to dismantle all nuclear weapons in India. | |
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