CWC meeting | Country fervently demanding a change: Kharge

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge criticises current government, promises implementable manifesto with five 'nyay' guarantees for Lok Sabha polls.

Asserting that the country is seeking a change, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on March 19 said the ‘guarantees’ touted by the present government would meet the same fate as the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004.

Addressing a press conference after the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), party leaders K.C. Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh said the CWC has authorised Mr. Kharge to give final approval to the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls and decide a date for its release.

The CWC has prepared a roadmap for taking the party’s guarantees to grassroots, Mr. Venugopal.

said after the over three-hour long meeting.

Mr. Ramesh said the Congress will release not just a ‘ghoshna patra’ (manifesto) but ‘nyay patra’ so that people see a bright future.

Earlier, addressing the meeting of the CWC, the party’s top decision-making body, Mr. Kharge urged all party leaders and workers to take every issue raised in the party manifesto to every village and town and to every household across the country.

“The country is fervently demanding a change. The guarantees currently being touted by the present government would have the same fate as that of the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004,” he said in his address at the CWC meet.