The document provides information on political parties and their manifestos in India. It discusses the major national parties - Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India (CPI), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) - listing their founding year, current leader, and parliamentary seats. For INC and BJP, it summarizes their key policies on education, health, employment, agriculture, women's security, and foreign affairs as outlined in their respective manifestos. It also includes data on growth in higher education enrollment and numbers of colleges/universities in India from 1950-2011.

1. Indian
Elections
Party
Manifestos

2. List of Indian National Political
Parties
Name Symbol Year of
foundati
on
Current
leader
Lok
Sabha
seats
BJP 1980 Amit Shah 282/543
INC 1885 Sonia
Gandhi
44/543
CPI
(Marxist)
1964 Prakash
Karat
9/543
CPI 1925 S.S.
Reddy
1/543
BSP 1984 Mayawati 0/543

3. What is a Manifesto?
Manifesto is a public
declaration of policy
and aims, especially
one issued before
an election by a
political party or
candidate.

4. Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the
largest and oldest democratically-operating
political parties in the world. Founded by
freedom fighter activists in 1885, it dominated
politics nationally for most of the period from
1947–89.
Sonia Gandhi
(Chairperson)
Rahul Gandhi
(P.M. Candidate)

5. Manifesto of INC

6. Education
● INC would develop Rashtriya
Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan
(RUSA) to provide statergies
funding to inprove college and
university infrastucture.
● The Ladli scheme will be
extended to college-going girls,
which will include a financial
assistance of Rs. 50,000.
● The INC will continue to expand
its support to providing interest-free
educations loans to students
at all levels especially to the
weaker sections of society.

7. Growth in Student Enrolement
in Higher Education
18000
16000
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
1950-51 1960-61 1970-71 1980-81 1990-91 2000-01 2004-05 2010-11
Student Enrolement (in 1000)
Girls Enrolement (in 1000)
Year
Enrolment
Source : UGC

8. Growth of Indian Institutions
Co. of colleges Source MHRD/UGC
35000
30000
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
Growth of Indian colleges
No. of Colleges
1950-51 1960-61 1970-71 1980-81 1990-91 2000-01 2004-05 2010-11
Years
1960-61
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
1950-51
1980-81
1970-71
2000-01
1990-91
2010-11
2005-06
Dec.2011
0
Growth of Indian Universities
No. of Universities
Years
No. of Universities
Source : MHRD/UGC

9. Health
1) INC will provide mobile health care
vans in every district, equipped with x-ray
and other equipment, to provide health
care check ups including, mammography,
blood tests, etc.
2) The INC will expand the Rashtriya
Swasthya Bima Yojana to enable access to
a continuum of comprehensive primary,
secondary and tertiary care.
3) INC has got new ideas for
campaigning and immunisation which can
get rid of polio and some other disease.
That can accomplish the dream of our
country to be called a polio free country.

10. Employment
● INC would increase India’s
investment rate to 38 % to ensure
more new investments are made
to create jobs.
● INC would develop the MGNREGA
scheme to every rural place which
ensure would a 100 days of
employment.

11. 1970-71 1973-74 2000-01 2009-10
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Share of Sectors in Employment (%)
Primary Sector
Secondary sector
Tertiary Sector
Years
Employment
1970-71 1973-74 2003-04 2010-11
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Share of Sector in GDP
Primary Sector
Secondary Sector
Tertiary Sector
Years GDP

12. Agriculture
● They shall continue to nurture
Public Private Partnerships for
increasing investments in various
areas like cold storage
facilities,etc .This will greatly aid
in increasing agriculture
productivity and exports.
● The INC will allocate special
funds for agricultural research to
develop new technologies for
disease management of crops ,
high-yielding-varieties of crops,
etc.
Cold Storage

14. Women Security
● To ensure that the city is safer for the
women, the government will ensure special
training for the police, as well as an increase
in the number of women in the police force.
● INC will initiate immediate action to
formulate a Citizens Charter for Women’s
Safety and Security (CCWSS) act.
● Fast-Track Courts will be established with ‘in-camera’
proceedings facilities in State
headquarters and in regional centres. The
purpose of these Courts will be solely to
address crimes against women.

15. Foreign Policy
● The Indian National Congress will strive to
mobilize support for India’s permanent
membership in the UN Security Council.
● INC will work to strengthen the South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) framework and endeavour to
meaningfully realise a South Asian economic
community.

16. Bharatiya Janta Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the two
largest political parties in India. It has close
ideological and organisational links to the Hindu
nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. It
was founded by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in
1980. In present it is the ruling party.
Amit Shah
(Chairperson BJP)
Narendra Modi
(Current P.M.)

17. Manifesto of
BJP

18. Education
● BJP's flagship program 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan':
shall be strengthened and expanded with a goal to
remove illiteracy.
● Use of technology for education as a mission
mode project to reduce the daily burden of carrying
books to school for children,
● Girls shall be provided all possible help to continue
and complete school education.

19. Health
● Modernize Government hospitals,
upgrading infrastructure and latest
technologies.
● Launch National Mosquito Control
mission.
● Create an open defecation free India
by awareness campaign and enabling
people to build toilets in their home as
well as in schools and public places.

20. Employment
● Strategically develop high impact
domains like labour-intensive
manufacturing.
● Strengthen the traditional
employment bases of agriculture
and allied industries as well as
stronger credit and market
linkages.
● Promoting and developing tourist
attractive places which can allow
new employment opportunities.

22. Agriculture and Farmers
● Taking steps to enhance the profitability in
agriculture, over the cost of production,
cheaper agriculture inputs and credit;
introducing latest technologies for farming
and high yielding seeds.
● Introduce and promote low water consuming
irrigation techniques and optimum utilization
of water resources.
● Seting up the 'Organic Farming and
Fertilizer Corporation of India', to promote
organic farming and fertilizers.

23. Women Security
● Strict implementation of laws related
to women, particularly those related to
rape.
● Make police stations women friendly,
and increase the number of women in
police at different levels.
● Introduce self defence as a part of the
school curriculum.
● Using information technology for
women's safety.

24. Foreign Policy
● BJP will champion uniform international
opinion on issues like Terrorism and Global
Warming.
● BJP will continue our dialogue,
engagement and cooperation, with global
forums like BRICS,IBSA, ASEM etc.
● In our neighbourhood we will pursue
friendly relations. However, where required
we will not hesitate from taking strong
stand and steps.

25. Aam Aadmi Party
Aam Aadmi Party is an Indian political party,
formally launched on 26 November 2012. It
came into existence following differences
between the activists Arvind Kejriwal regarding
whether or not to politicise the popular India
Against Corruption movement that had been
demanding a Jan Lokpal Bill since 2011.
Arvind Kejriwal
(Leader AAP)

26. Highlights of AAP's Manifesto
● Passing the lok pal bill at national level.
● Passing the swaraj bill at national level.
● Providing swift accesible justice to the
common man.
● Empowering citizens particularly poor
and vulnerable.
● Zero tolerance policy towards cross-border
terrorism.

27. Highlights of 2009 Congress
Manifesto
● 25 kg wheat or rice for Rs.3 a month
for BPL card holders.
● Enactment of a National Food
Security Act.
● To pursue judicial reforms to cut
delays in courts.
● To pass a stronger MGNREGA
( Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Act) Act.

28. What all things they were able
accomplish ?
MGNREGA: Launched in the year
2005, this scheme has reportedly
benefited a major chunk of rural
household in India. Wages under
MGNREGA have almost doubled ever
since it came into existence. Last
year, it provided employment to more
than 4.8 crore households
Food Security: Although Congress is
yet to make much headway in
National Food Security Bill, it is to be
noted that there has been a three-fold
increase in food subsidy during the
UPA tenure.

29. Things which were made worse.
GDP growth:According to the economic reports, India lost
momentum in GDP growth under the Congress’s rule. The
average GDP growth till 2004 was 6% a year. As of June 30, 2013,
the average annual GDP growth fell to 4.4% in 2013.
Depreciation of rupee: The value of rupee has nose-dived ever
since the Congress started ruling in 2004. Simple statistics reveal
that the variation in rupee value was between 39 and 49 per USD
till 2004. It saw an unprecedented fall in the last 10 years as the
value went as low as 68 per USD . The party’s policies didn’t
evoke global confidence, which is touted as the major reason for
this instability.
Current Account Deficit: The Congress’s performance in this
sector looks dismal. When it returned to power, there was no
existence of current account deficit. In fact, we had an impressive
surplus of around $8 billion. Ten years later, that figure stands at
(-) $80 billion. This is where the party has disappointed the nation
the most.

30. Group Members