Praja Rajyam Party’s draft manifesto released

HYDERABAD: The Manifesto Committee on Thursday officially presented party president K. Chiranjeevi with the first draft manifesto. However, the PRP leaders refused to disclose the contents of the document that has taken weeks to draft.

At the 12th meeting of the Manifesto Committee, chairman P. Shivshankar handed over the first copy to the party president. He said it would be circulated internally among the district committees to facilitate more suggestions to be incorporated, before it was finally released to the public.

A brief peek

Briefing the media later, Mr. Shivshankar said the first three pages contained the basics, generally information regarding the political situation at the State and Centre, after which there was the definition of the word social justice and how the PRP looked at it, vis-À-vis the other political parties. Importantly, the manifesto also spelt out what exactly was the change proposed by the PRP and how it would go about effecting it to improve the lot of the poor.

Then there were definitive plans about what the PRP would do for the poor, specific focus on the scheduled castes and tribes, backward classes and the minorities, apart from sector-wise programmes in agriculture, health, education, industry and infrastructure expansion, to name a few, the senior PRP leader said.

Around noon, Mr. Chiranjeevi welcomed the formal entry into the PRP, of senior Congress MLA from Malleswaram in Krishna district, B. Veda Vyas. At the Raavi Narayana Reddy auditorium, he said the party was happy at the entry of a leader with a clean record.