Janasena party chief Pawan Kalyan during party formation day on 14th March announced that his party would be releasing manifesto on 14th August. There have been rumours that Janasena manifesto will be focusing fully on local issues and manifesto will have separate pages for each constituency and thus emphasizing on local governance. But recently Janasena leaders including Pawan Kalyan started saying that only vision document and outline of manifesto will be released on 14th August and party will be working further on preparing manifesto and that will be released later..
TDP yet to release manifesto:
Anyway elections are still more than 8 months away and it is usual practice that all political parties release their manifestos just couple of months before elections. TDP has not yet released its manifesto for 2019 elections. Usually ruling parties will be the last ones to release their manifesto for next elections because if they release it early, people would first question about the unfulfilled promises in the previous manifesto. Moreover, recently political opponents have been voicing out on unfulfilled promises in the manifesto.
Click here for : Revisiting TDP manifesto 2014 (Part-2) – List of Promises failed miserably
YSRCP’s manifesto lacked surprise element:
However YSRCP already released party manifesto and promised “Navaratnalu ” to the people of Andhra Pradesh. Jagan announced election manifesto for 2019 in 2017 itself. But Jagan is also saying that they would be further refining the manifesto and will update the manifesto after his “pada yatra” is completed. YSR CP manifesto is very comprehensive covering almost all issues but still it lacked surprise element. Usually the manifestos that have some sort of surprise element will immediately reach the public. For example TDP’s total prohibition of alcohol in 1994, free electricity power for farmers in 2004 by congress, loan waiver for farmers in 2014 by TDP were such surprising and effective promises. So far, only major political party to release manifesto is YSRCP and that manifesto lacked such surprise element.
Janasena vision document:
So people were curious to see what Janasena party would be offering to the people in its manifesto. However Pawan Kalyan and other Janasena leaders like Madasu Gangadhar announcing that the party manifesto will be released at a later date and on August 14th only vision document will be released, disappointed those people who were waiting. As of now, it seems the vision document will focus on education and health issues in the state. Recently, there has been discussion among Janasena caders on Finland type of education and possibility of implementing it in AP. Probably, it will be released after Pawan completes his “Praja porata yatra’ tour in the state.
We will have to wait and see what this vision document highlights because that will give a clue about upcoming manifesto of Janasena party.
