PEOPLE’S MANIFESTO FOR PARLIAMENTRY ELECTIONS 2014

March 10, 2014

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A. INTRODUCTION

India is a Sovereign, Secular, Democratic Republic with the Parliamentary form of Government. The Constitution of India seeks a country which is built on the foundations of the values of Justice, Liberty and Equality. The state is assigned with the duty of ensuring the flawless realization of these prime objectives of the constitution. For this, the state is accountable to people of India and the people of India exercise their power through vote. So the main criterion for people of India for exercising the power of vote should be none other than the idea of India as envisaged by the Constitution of India.

This idea has been badly spoiled by the policies and practices of successive governments after independence. The flawed vision of development has resulted into unmatched inequality. This inequality has created wide gaps between the citizens of India based on rural and urban divide, on economic status, castes and sects and even based on religion and ethnicity.

Weaker sections of our society and minorities are still struggling for justice. They have reasonable representation neither in the institutions of governance nor in the national wealth and production. Common man is still at the receiving end of the worst kind of atrocities and human rights violation by the very institutions and authorities that were supposed to be his protectors.

The biggest minority of the country, the Muslims, have gradually turned into the most backward social group. They are still struggling with the deadly sense of insecurity. The communal fascism is still perceived by them as a major threat to their cultural identity. And even after seven decades of independence, the state could not win their trust as a neutral, unbiased and just protector.

Emergence of fascist and totalitarian political movements constitutes a great threat to the country. It is a threat not only to the noble values of constitution and pluralist and democratic structure of the country; but also to the unity and integrity of the nation and the very of India,

Corruption has gradually grown into such an unruly demon that the whole system seems to be helpless before it. Political institutions of all levels are totally in its clutch. Its ruinous impact has paralyzed the bureaucracy. And now media and judiciary are also getting spoiled.

The fear of Almighty God and spirituality plays a crucial role in accomplishing an perfect and disciplined society. Unfortunately, in our country, the religion has always been used to create differences, to polarize the society and to exploit the weak. In a religious society like India, the religious and spiritual values can play a constructive role in bringing about a healthy social change.

The Elections 2014 provide one more opportunity to people of India to come forward to fulfill their constitutional obligation to protect the foundational values of the Constitution.

With this purpose, we the undersigned citizens of India hereby express our fullest agreement with this “People’ Manifesto” proposed by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and we declare our support to only those parties and candidates who fully agree with this manifesto and resolve to implement it if elected to power.

We also declare our resolve to come out with fool-proof systems to monitor the implementation of this manifesto and make the elected governments accountable to people for the promises they make at the time of election.

 

B. MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT

To realize the idea of a Pluralistic, Progressive and Inclusive India, the following should be the major objectives of the party seeking to get elected.

  1. Realizing the notion of a welfare state by ensuring food, shelter, clothes, education, health and a dignified life to every citizen of India and by ensuring more equitable and humane development..
  2. Bringing a meaningful change in the lives of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Muslims and other backward sections of the society and in the rural areas and backward regions of the country, by focusing on their all round development and empowerment.
  3. Creating a sense of security in the people of India by effectively countering and controlling the factors responsible for terrorism and to create sense of security in the poor, the women, the Muslims and other vulnerable communities and sections by effectively countering the forces responsible for oppression, violence state and police atrocities, and communal riots.
  4. Containing iron-handedly menaces like corruption, sexual crimes, nepotism, criminalization of politics, discrimination, and polarization, and bringing in a moral revolution in the state machinery and body politic by promoting virtues like trustworthiness, chastity, broadmindedness and respect for the identity of every community.

     

C. POLICY MEASURES

To achieve the above mentioned objectives, we demand the parties seeking our vote to categorically promise to implement the following 15 point programme containing legislative and policy measures.

  1. To bring a constitutional amendment in Part III of the constitution and recognizing a comprehensive “Right To Livelihood” of all citizens of India by assuring complete security of food, housing, clothes, education and healthcare.
  2. To bring constitutional amendments to implement the Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission Report, more specifically its recommendation for  15% reservation in education and jobs to minorities of which a sub-quota of 10% allotted to Muslim minority.
  3. To Implement the Diversity Index concept as envisaged in Sachar Committee, as an affirmative action in both government and private sectors to ensure the better opportunities for Dalits, Muslims and other disadvantaged sections, All aids, grants, contracts, sops and other state support should be linked with the Diversity Index.
  4. To amend the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, to provide the employment guarantee for whole 365 days of a year and to enact a similar act for urban poor. This can be effectively achieved by making provisions to involve private sector in rural employment generation through legally mandatory provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility.
  5. To enact the Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill after thoroughly reviewing the draft proposed by National Advisory Council. The act should effectively counter impunity of political and bureaucratic leadership by securing accountability of all persons exercising State power, and to ensure comprehensive justice for the victim- survivors of communal and targeted violence
  6. To Amend all security related laws including NIA, AFSPA, UAPA, all state laws, IPC, IT Act 2000 and other laws and make them in alignment with the obligations of International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. To ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its optional Protocol; the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and amend all the laws to align with this ratification.

  7. To establish an independent judicial commission to probe the terror incidents and accusations of terrorist activities in last 20 years and to enact a comprehensive law providing for the establishment of fast track courts for such cases, reparation for victims and punishment for wrongful prosecutions.

  8. Taking strong and stringent measures to curb corruption by getting the Jan Lokpal Bill passed by including private corporations and NGOs under its purview, to amend the RTI to overcome its shortcomings and to implement the egovernance measures to ensure fullest transparency in all government processes and dealings.
  9. To Implement the recommendations of National Police Commission and bring comprehensive reform in the policing system to make Police force more professional and humane; also to implement the recommendations of National Commission for Minorities, to have 25% reservation for minorities in Police Force to make the force more representative and unbiased.
  10. To implement a comprehensive policy for protecting the dignity of women and for controlling the sex crimes. Legal amendments should ensure stern punitive measures. Education Policy should be amended to sensitize the society on moral and sexual discipline and the censor laws and rules should be amended to control the constant provocation by media, films, pornography and erotic literature.
  11. To increase the budgetary allocation on education and health by bringing up the total state funding to the target of 8% of GDP for education and 5% of GDP for health, in the first budget itself.
  12. To formulate and implement a comprehensive policy to rejuvenate Indian Agrarian sector. The Policy should include all the recommendations of National Commission for Farmers, measures to discourage the corporate farming and future selling and establishment of a fund on the lines of Calamity Fund to help the farmers in case of loss of crops.
  13. To bring reforms in fiscal policy by increasing the scope of governmental intervention in social and human development. To achieve this, the taxes on super rich class should go up and direct to non direct tax ratio should be increased and budget should be made more responsive to the needs of the disadvantaged sections of society viz. Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, women, rural population, urban poor and marginalized and to have a “Muslim Component Plan” in the Five Year Plan.
  14. To Bring necessary amendment in the relevant laws and rules to introduce the interest free finance in the banking sector as recommended by the high level Committee on Financial Sector Reforms of the Planning Commission headed by Dr Raghuram Rajan for inclusive growth of the marginalized and the minorities.
  15. To amend the Constitution to make Parliamentary sanction necessary for any major international treaty or agreement and to reorient the Foreign Policy of India to make it in conformity with the spirit of the Constitution of India and its values by making it, independent and non-aligned, anti-imperialist, pro-democracy, pro-people and one which promotes good relations with neighbors and South-South cooperation.

Urdu Manifesto Manshur

Kannada Manifesto Pranalike

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