Lok Sabha polls 2014: Highlights of the BJP manifesto 2014

NEW DELHI: Contentious issues like construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, abrogation of Art 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir and enactment of Uniform Civil Code have been included in the BJP's election manifesto with the party making promises on them.

The 52-page document, released among others by its PM candidate Narendra Modi at the party headquarters here, also pledged to provide good governance and inclusive development.

Highlights:
- The party reiterates its stand to explore all possibilities within framework of Constitution to facilitate construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

- Reiterating its stand on Art 370 and discussing with all stakeholders for abrogation of the Article.

- Ensuring minimisation of black money and setting up of a task force for this purpose.

- Putting in place strict measures and special courts to stop hoarding and black marketing.

- Setting up a Price Stabilisation Fund. - Unbundling FCI operations into procurement, storage and distribution for greater efficiency.

- Evolving a single National Agriculture Market. - Promoting and support area specific crops and vegetables linked to food habits of the people.

- Developing high impact domains like labour intensive manufacturing, tourism, and strengthening traditional employment bases of agriculture and allied industry.

- Harnessing opportunities provided by the upgradation of infrastructure and housing.

- Encouraging and empowering youth for self employment and transforming employment exchanges into career centres.

- Eliminating corruption through public awareness, e-governance, rationalisation and simplification of tax regime.

- Harmonising Centre-state relations by evolving model of national development driven by the states.

- Setting up a Team India initiative which will include the PM and CMs as equal partners.

- Ensure fiscal autonomy of states and creation of regional councils of states of common problems and concerns,

- National Development Council and Inter-state Council will be revived and made into active body.

- Involving state governments in promotion of foreign trade and commerce.

- Greater decentralisation through smaller states. - Special emphasis on improving connectivity in Northeast region.

- Massive infrastructure development in NE region. - Complete all pending fencing work along the India-Bangladesh and India-Myanmar border.

- Dealing with insurgency with a firm hand.



- BJP to draft a Uniform Civil Code drawing upon the best traditions and harmonising them with the modern times.

- Foreign policy will be guided through pragmatism and doctrines of mutually beneficial and interlocking relationships.

- Launching a massive Clean Rivers Programme with people's participation.

- Pursuing friendly relations with neighbours and at the same time not hesitate from taking strong stand when required.

- Reviving the anti-terror mechanism which has been dismantled by the Congress and putting in place swift and fair trial of terror-related cases.

- Insulate intelligence agencies from political intervention and interference.

- Strengthening DRDO and encourage private sector participation including FDI in selected defence industries.

- Strengthening physical infrastructure with expediting work on freight and industrial corridors.

- Setting up of gas grids and national optical fibre network upto the village level.

- Launching of diamond quadrilateral project of high-speed rail network (Bullet trains).

- Setting up of agri rail network catering to needs of perishable farm products.

- Launching of 50 new tourist circuits for the development of tourism.

- Universalisation of secondary school education and skill development and establishment of national e-library.

- Implementation of national education policy.UGC to be restructured and transformed into higher education commission.

- Ensuring urgent steps for safety of migrant workers and communities from Northeast and other states.

- Pursuing an agenda of equal and rapid development of all three regions of Jammu and Kashmir -- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.

- Return of Kashmiri Pandits to the land of their ancestors with full dignity and security.

- Evolving further the PPP model into a People-Public-Private Partnership (PPPP).

- Strengthening self-governance and empowering Panchayati Raj institutions with a devolution of functionaries and funds.

- Consolidating Gram Sabha institutions, involving people, in policy formation.