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What do election manifestos of BJP & Congress have for the new-age voters?

The Congress manifesto promises to remove any impediments, whether legal or administrative, to larger industrial production, while the BJP aims to position Bharat as a trusted global manufacturing hub

Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi unveils Congress' manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 (left) and PM Narendra Modi launches BJP's manifesto | File Photo: PTI
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Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi unveils Congress' manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 (left) and PM Narendra Modi launches BJP's manifesto | File Photo: PTI

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee New Delhi
Election manifestos are in the news in this general election. Google Trends shows in the past two days there was a major spike in the searches for the term manifesto from India.

This is no surprise, given the sharp comments from the ruling BJP and retort from the Congress about what the manifesto of the latter contains.

It also breaks a trend. The interest level about manifestos in election campaigns of Indian political parties is often pedestrian. Not so this time. The same Google Trends shows the interest level is much above this time than that of 2019 or even

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