Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE Updates: BJP’s Manifesto Committee’s First Meet Today; Congress Seeks Donation In MP Claiming Bank Accounts Frozen – News18

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE Updates: With the Lok Sabha Election 2024 around the corner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to hold its first meeting of the manifesto committee on Monday, The meeting, chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, will be held at party headquarters in Delhi at 11 am. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been appointed the convenor of the 27-member manifesto committee while Union Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has been made the co-convenor. The manifesto committee also has one BJP leader each from minority communities — including Sikh, Muslim and Christian. The committee is tasked to fine-tune the saffron party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’. Top sources have informed that the manifesto will be called “Modi ki guarantee”.

Meanwhile, the Congress in Madhya Pradesh launched a “one note, one vote” campaign seeking donations to contest Lok Sabha elections claiming the party has run out of money since its bank accounts have been frozen by the BJP-led Central government. Speaking on the occasion, MP Congress chief Jitu Patwari said the move to freeze the bank accounts after the model code of conduct kicked in was aimed at financially weakening the party in the run-up to elections.