How many of us read the party manifestos? The full text of two national parties are presented here: Congress & BJP .
Most of us have goals; to reach a goal one should plan and propose the mechanism. The proposal and the way the aspirations would be attained is very important. Quoting Thirukural Verse 631 "A minister is he who can conceive a great enterprise, rightly choose the ways, The means and the time, then successfully accomplish it", I would like to highlight the differences between the manifestos and the way i see it.
Congress has a very broad scope, uses the traditional approach in its documentation style, touches important contemproary issues of the Nation but lacks direction and implementation detail at even a high level. I mean choosing the ways, means are not clear for me. These can be used to read between the lines - To start with the team that prepared the manifesto lacks clarity and vision or the party leaders have not communicated their vision to this team. Both of my probablities are quite frustrating. A party that may run on a few men's(or Women) shoulder, how could it run a billion people? This party needs leaders at different levels as an enterprise does. These people should be the ones contributing to the vision and formulating the election mandate.
I like this statement from the manifesto: "India is a young country with 70% of the population below the age of 35. To reap the “demographic dividend”, the Indian National Congress 
believes that there is an urgent need to put in place an extensive skill development programme so that the employability of youth is enhanced" What this tells me is the INC never forethought this, hence the urgent need! If you had a educated guess twenty years back, we would not need to act urgently now? What if there was a natural disaster, a war or something else that hijacks the priority? I am not a congress basher, but i hate to say the manifesto is empty - nothing on the vision, no details, no clear programmes to implement - just broader statements! When i planned for writing the blog, i wanted to list top 5 good things from both the manifestos but i can't find any top notch ones in the INC document set. By the way I am not Pro-BJP, but their manifesto looks better because of the details, the Introduction that gives a sense of history, approach to issues, listing out some high level implementation items etc. what it tells me is the party has people who can visualise and formulate for grand scheme of things.I started doing a comparitive chart and even rating it, but i gave up or people would start branding me as a pro-BJP, but that says it... I will let you choose, but please vote and forward this to your friends!
believes that there is an urgent need to put in place an extensive skill development programme so that the employability of youth is enhanced" What this tells me is the INC never forethought this, hence the urgent need! If you had a educated guess twenty years back, we would not need to act urgently now? What if there was a natural disaster, a war or something else that hijacks the priority? I am not a congress basher, but i hate to say the manifesto is empty - nothing on the vision, no details, no clear programmes to implement - just broader statements! When i planned for writing the blog, i wanted to list top 5 good things from both the manifestos but i can't find any top notch ones in the INC document set. By the way I am not Pro-BJP, but their manifesto looks better because of the details, the Introduction that gives a sense of history, approach to issues, listing out some high level implementation items etc. what it tells me is the party has people who can visualise and formulate for grand scheme of things.I started doing a comparitive chart and even rating it, but i gave up or people would start branding me as a pro-BJP, but that says it... I will let you choose, but please vote and forward this to your friends!
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This is a good initiative.
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