The politics behind BJP, Congress asking voters to frame their manifestos

BJP to set up 7,500 suggestion boxes, send 300 vehicles with computer tablets across the country as part of its manifesto drafting exercise

It is not new for political parties in India to consult stakeholders and experts to help draft their respective election manifestos. The interesting development in recent years is to use the exercise to reach out to the public at large to give them a sense of being a part of the drafting process and galvanise party workers in the process. 

Most famously, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) experimented with this, and quite successfully, in the Delhi Assembly polls of 2013 and 2015. It crowdsourced not just funding, but also ideas for its manifesto. The AAP came out with not just