Module 7: Political approaches
  Lecture 21: Manifesto of BJP

Identification of the major problems of Indian society

The manifesto indentifies a number of problems:

  • A weak Prime Minister.

  • Reversal of NDA’s policies leading to a mounting sense of insecurity fuelled by repeated terrorist attacks, Maoist insurgency and separatist violence which together have claimed hundreds of innocent lives.

  • Gross mismanagement of the economy causing inflation, job losses and lockouts.

  • Corruption at high places.

  • Misuse of agencies of the state, namely the CBI.

  • The above economic trends are closely associated with cultural fragmentation and pluralism.

  • Unemployment in the unorganized sector and loss of jobs by the skilled workers in the organized sector

  • Farmers’ suicides.