NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised on Sunday (Apr 14) to create jobs, boost infrastructure and expand welfare programmes if it wins a third term, seeking to address key voter concerns ahead of next week's elections.
India n Prime Minister Narendra Modi displays a copy of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's election manifesto for the general election, in New Delhi, India , on Apr 14, 2024. NEW DELHI: India n Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's Bharatiya Janata Party promised on Sunday to create jobs, boost infrastructure and expand welfare programmes if it wins a third term, seeking to address key voter concerns ahead of next week's elections.
Surveys, however, suggest unemployment, inflation and rural distress remain issues of concern in the world's most populous country despite its strong economy and addressing these will be Modi's biggest challenge."Our focus is on dignity of life ... on quality of life, our focus is also on creating jobs through investment," Modi said after releasing the manifesto, titled"Modi's Guarantee", at the party's headquarters in the capital.
Modi also vowed to expand welfare programmes, including bringing all Indians above the age of 70 under an existing free health insurance programme and pushing piped cooking gas connections to all houses to follow up on a subsidised cooking gas cylinder programme launched in 2016. Unemployment was the primary concern of 27 per cent of the 10,000 voters surveyed by Lokniti-CSDS across 19 of India's 28 states, with rising prices coming second at 23 per cent, the Hindu newspaper reported last week.
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