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April 14, 2009

Give legal status to election manifestos

COUNTRY’S TOP political parties Congress and BJP have released their respective poll-manifestos with usual gimmickries. But what if the concerned political party fails to fulfill its poll-promise authenticated by election-manifestos after coming to power?

Unfortunately, present is an era of alliance politics and every political party finds an easy excuse of not reaching consensus amongst allied partners to fulfill promises.

Election-manifestos should be given some legal validity.
Election Commission should de-recognise political parties failing to fulfill poll-promises highlighted in their election-manifestos after coming to power.

It will be advisable that political parties may clear their position before the voters ahead of polls by having two types of poll-manifestos, one if the party succeeds to form government on its own and the other if it has to form a government in alliance with other political parties.

How can BJP go ahead with its poll-promises like Ram Temple, Common Civil Code and abolition of Article 370 of the Constitution etc, when its other NDA allies are openly speaking against these aspects? It is evident that BJP making same promises at 1999-elections, could not fulfill during NDA regime headed by BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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