CWC leaves final touches in manifesto to Kharge's court

THE Congress Working Committee, the party's apex decision-making body, on Tuesday deliberated upon the election manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, which has a heavy thrust on the party's ‘nyay' agenda, and authorised party chief Mallikarjun Kharge to give final shape to it.

- PREETHA NAIR

Addressing a press conference after the CWC meeting, Congress leader KC Venugopal said that the party will build on the momentum of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, during which it announced five guarantees. A plan has been prepared to take the message of the guarantees to the grassroots level, he said.

The centerpiece of the manifesto is the guarantees for youth, women, farmers and labourers as well as the promise of a caste census.