Picture this: No place for Vajpayee, Advani in BJP's manifesto cover

The 2019 manifesto has only the picture of Prime Minister Modi on its cover page

Picture in picture

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its manifesto, or a Sankalp Patra as the party calls it. The Sankalp Patra has made some interesting changes to the party’s 2014 manifesto. The cover of the 2014 manifesto had pictures of all its prominent leaders — Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh — on one side, and Narendra Modi depicted as first among equals along with leaders such as Vasundhara Raje, Raman Singh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar and Sushma Swaraj. The 2019 manifesto has only the picture of Prime