Indian National Congress – INC

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Highlights

• Security, respect and prosperity for all citizens of India to be the congress party’s endeavor.
• Food security on the lines of employment guarantee
• Reservation of one third jobs to women in government.
• Practical solution to demand for separate states
• Reservation of jobs in private sector
• Goods and services to have same tax. Lifting of all other kinds of taxes.

Bharatiya Janata Party – BJP

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• 33% reservation for women in parliament.
• The Ram temple will be builtStrict laws like POTA will be bought in terror cases.
• Loans for farmers will be made more easy and be available at only 4% interest rate.
• No tax on pension in case of senior citizens
• Rs.2/kg Rice to people below poverty line (Which many states are already implementing)
• Waiver of farm loans completely (Although UPA has announced this in last years budget, it is said that its implementation wasn’t perfect)
• To tax is payable for salaries upto 3.5 lacks for women and 3 lacks for men (this is a big one)
• The dejected IT sector will be revived and 1.2 crore jobs will be created.
• Free cycles to school going girls below poverty line.
• All money (black money as they call) in foreign banks will be brought bank to India.
• Laptops will be given to students.
• Computers will be available at a very low price.
• Reservations will be based on economic condition of the family and not on caste.
• Mobile phones to every Indian.

Communist Party of India – Marxist – CPI(M)

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Highlights :

• Enacting a comprehensive law against communal violence; ensuring speedy justice and adequate compensation to the victims of communal violence like the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 and for the implementation of the Justice Sri Krishna Commission report
  
• Increasing annual Plan Expenditure amounting to 10% of India’s current GDP (currently it is below 5%)
• Safeguarding the right to organize, collective bargaining and the right to strike for all workers, including government employees; Enacting legislation to annul the Supreme Court judgment prohibiting strikes
• Enacting the Women’s Reservation Bill to ensure one -third reservation for women in the legislatures
• Extending reservation to dalit Christians and dalit Muslims
• Ensuring proper implementation of 27% OBC reservation in Central educational institutions; Extending OBC reservation to all private educational institutions
• Enhancing public funding of indigenous research in science and technology to promote self-reliance
• Decentralization in funding for R&D; Fundamental research in the sciences to be accorded priority
• Promoting free software and other such new technologies, which are free from monopoly ownership through copyrights or patents; “knowledge commons” should be promoted across disciplines, like biotechnology and drug discovery

Telugu Desam Party – TDP

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Highlights :

• cash transfer of Rs.2,000/- per month for poor families
• colour tv for poor families
• free power upto 12 hours per day to farmers
• minimum support price for farm produce
• security fund for farmers welfare
• fund for self employment to the youth
• pension to unemployed
• employment to the youth
• free bicycles to girl students
• houses for weavers
• houses for all the poor people
• free power to homes with two bulbs, one fan and tv
• domestic cooking gas at Rs150/- per cylinder
• increase the pension to Rs.500/- for handicapped to Rs.1000/-
• loan waiver to farmers loans taken after 2008.