Congress Will Deliver - Indian National Congress Manifesto, Lok Sabha Elections 2019
- Released
- 2 Apr 2019
- 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 400+ commitments across the 6 sections (Kaam, Daam, Shaan, Sushasan, Swabhimaan, Samman).
No score
This party didn't form the government, so there is no delivery to score. Here's what it promised.
Every tracked promise
Fill all 4 lakh central government vacancies before end of March 2020
Waive outstanding farm loans in other states and move farmers to 'Karz Mukti'
Present a separate annual Kisan Budget
Raise health spending to 3% of GDP and enact a Right to Healthcare Act by 2023-24
Double education spending to 6% of GDP in the five years ending 2023-24
Replace GST with 'GST 2.0': a single moderate standard rate
Pass the 33% women's reservation amendment in the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha
Create 1 crore low-skilled jobs via water-body and wasteland restoration missions
Raise manufacturing's share of GDP from 16% to 25% within five years
Launch MGNREGA 3.0 with up to 150 days of guaranteed work where 100 days achieved
Enact the Direct Taxes Code in the first year of government
Omit Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code
Grant Special Category status to Andhra Pradesh
Lift another 10 crore people out of poverty between 2019 and 2024
Investigate BJP government deals of the past five years, in particular Rafale
Make India an innovation hub
Restore pride of the armed forces and strengthen hard power
Good and competent governance with good economic managers inducted
Usher in an economy that works for all with no one left behind
Research notes
Text read from a locally cached PDF of the manifesto (29 PDF pages of two-page spreads, about 56 printed pages). Printed page numbers are inferred from the spread footers and the contents page; where a spread holds two printed pages the exact page is approximate (+/-1). The original download URL of the cached PDF was not recorded and could not be re-verified (web.archive.org fetch was blocked), so sourceUrl points to the INC manifesto listing page, which was opened but does not carry a 2019 link. Release date is 2 April 2019 from the researcher's recollection; Wikipedia says 3 April, so treat as unverified. Some quotes are shortened to the first sentence of a longer item (e.g. the Right to Healthcare Act, the 150-day MGNREGA expansion).