Bharatiya Janata Party Vision Document 2004 - An idea whose time has come: India as a Developed Nation and a Great Power
- Released
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- Promises tracked
- 20
- Gol Gol Index
- 20% vague (lower is better)
- Original
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Profile set: 20 headline and major promises (including 4 vague ones) out of an estimated 150+ commitments in a roughly 30-page document.
No score
This party didn't form the government, so there is no delivery to score. Here's what it promised.
Every tracked promise
Sustained double-digit GDP growth to eradicate poverty and unemployment
Double the income of even a marginal farmer by 2010 (Second Green Revolution)
Construct a Ram temple at Ayodhya, with dialogue and a negotiated settlement
Start work on inter-linking of rivers
Raise total spending on education to 6% of GDP by 2010
Eradicate illiteracy completely within a decade
Support any consensus proposal for women's reservation in legislatures
Work towards a Uniform Civil Code after building consensus
Ban religious conversions done through fraud or coercion
PURA: four kinds of connectivity to every Indian village
Set up a National Judicial Commission to appoint judges
Give tribals inalienable ownership rights over forest land they live on
Central law and a federal agency for crimes spanning several states
New constitutional amendment, if needed, to empower panchayats
Work towards state funding of elections
A massive urban renewal programme (Ideal Indian City)
Preserve and propagate India's cultural heritage
Empower civil society to take part in development
End the tyranny of Red Tape and Inspector Raj
Research notes
Text read from the Internet Archive OCR text (djvu.txt) of the scanned Nanaji Deshmukh Library (BJP, Jammu) copy, cached at pipeline/.cache/raw/bjp0409/bjp2004.txt. Quotes were checked against the OCR text; OCR noise was avoided by choosing clean passages. Page numbers are printed page numbers; items between printed pages 24 and 27 (judicial commission, state funding of elections) have page null because the page footers 25 and 26 were not recovered. The document is the party's Vision Document, issued for the 14th Lok Sabha elections (April-May 2004); it says the BJP suggested specific measures for inclusion in the NDA manifesto. The scan carries no release date, and none could be confirmed from an opened source (web search budget was exhausted), so releaseDate is null. Deadlines are the end of the term that would have followed (2009-05-22) unless the text states one.