Adopted by the party

The manifesto

Eight commitments. Each one resolves to a number somebody outside this party can check without asking our permission.

A promise you cannot audit is not a promise.
It is an advertisement.

Indian manifestos are long because length is mistaken for seriousness. Ours is short because every line has to survive contact with a spreadsheet. If a commitment cannot be counted, we did not write it down.

Nothing here requires a new law to begin. Every one of these eight is an administrative decision that an honest government can take in its first year, and that a dishonest one avoids precisely because it would be measurable.

01

Jobs on a calendar

Every public recruitment is advertised with its examination date, its result date, and its joining date printed on the notice itself. Those dates are then kept.

How it is measured

A published recruitment calendar per department, and a running count of every deadline missed, with the reason and the officer responsible named.

02

Legal help within reach

A free legal aid clinic in every district, staffed on fixed days, plus the laws people actually meet written in the language they actually speak.

How it is measured

Clinic locations and opening hours published. Matters opened, matters closed, and the median days between them, released quarterly.

03

Schools with named vacancies

Teacher vacancy counts for every government school published monthly, school by school, with the date each post fell empty.

How it is measured

One public register. Vacancies open longer than one academic term are listed separately and answered for in the assembly.

04

A health centre you can reach

Staffing and medicine stock for every primary health centre posted publicly each month rather than filed upward and forgotten.

How it is measured

Stock-out days per centre per quarter, and the distance from each habitation to its nearest functioning centre.

05

Farmers paid on record

Every procurement receipted and traceable, with the payment deadline written into the contract before a single sack changes hands.

How it is measured

Days between delivery and payment, published by mandi. Any delay past the contract term accrues interest to the farmer automatically.

06

Courts that are actually staffed

Fast track courts filled to their sanctioned strength, because a court that exists only on paper is worse than no promise at all.

How it is measured

Sanctioned posts against filled posts, pendency, and time to disposal, released district by district every six months.

07

Air and water as numbers

Local readings tied to a named officer and a published remedy, so pollution stops being treated as weather and starts being treated as administration.

How it is measured

Monitoring station data published raw and unedited, with the remedy, its cost, and its deadline attached to each breach.

08

Money in the open

Every rupee our candidates receive is published with the donor named. We would rather raise less and be able to answer for all of it.

How it is measured

A public contribution register updated monthly, well beyond the statutory threshold for reporting to the Election Commission.

This document is not finished

A manifesto written once and defended forever becomes a wall. Ours is revised at each national convention, in the open, with the previous version left standing beside it so anyone can see what changed and when.

Members propose amendments. Amendments are voted on. Both the accepted and the rejected are published.

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