Poor, middle class, women, farmers & youth — BJP’s manifesto focus points & what it has promised them

[ New Delhi: The economic section of the Bharatiya Janata party’s 2024 poll manifesto, released Sunday, guaranteed that India would become the third-largest economy in the world, and focused on particular segments of the population, such as the poor, middle class, women, youth, farmers, and labourers. “The nation’s growth has come from the drastic socio-economic … Read more

How promises in BJP’s manifesto for Indian economy focus more on continuity rather than a shakeup

[ New Delhi: The economic component of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2024 general election manifesto, or Sankalp Patra, relies more on the successes of schemes and missions already implemented and their subsequent expansion rather than a substantial revamp or introduction of new ideas towards the target of ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047. This notion of preferring … Read more

BJP falls short of 2019 poll promise of ‘doubling number of airports’, but regional traffic growing

[ If fulfilled, this would have taken the total number of functional airports to 202, but the data from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) pegs the number of operational airports at 135. According to the AAI data, in January, there were 135 operational airports in the country, which together handled over 2.25 lakh aircraft … Read more