Zee Media Bureau/Biplob Ghosal
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will release its poll manifesto on April 7, the day General Elections begin, spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.
Earlier, reports suggested that the BJP, which was expected to release its poll manifesto today, delayed its decision due to last minute changes demanded by the Narendra Modi camp.
The media reports said that Modi-led team is not completely satisfied with the final draft of the party`s manifesto, which has been prepared by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi.
While reacting to the reports, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy told a news channel that as Joshi is drafting the manifesto and also contesting the Lok Sabha elections, he might be very busy.
Most probably, the BJP is now expected to release its manifesto by April 5 or 6 as the polling for the crucial elections starts on April 07.
BJP releases first `Delhi-specific` manifesto
Hoping to wrest seven Lok Sabha seats in national capital, BJP yesterday made an array of promises like granting full statehood, reducing power tariff by 30 percent and controlling price rise within one month if voted to power, in its first `Delhi-specific` manifesto ahead of general elections.
The party, which had lost all the seats to Congress in 2009 Lok Sabha polls, said it will set up a helpline for the national capital to receive complaints of corruption which appears to be on the lines of the call centre launched by the then AAP government in January.
