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Making India a Developed Nation and a Great Power by 2020, and creating an unshakeable national resolve to achieve this goal. |

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Further strengthening national security both external and internal — to overcome present and future challenges. |

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Further broadening and deepening of economic reforms, based on a self-reliant approach, for sustained double-digit GDP growth rate to achieve complete eradication of poverty and unemployment; end of regional and social disparities; and bridging the urban-rural divide. |

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Achieving a quantum improvement in the quality of life of all Indians by fulfilling their basic needs in education, healthcare, nutrition, drinking water, housing, sanitation, and cultural development. |

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Launching the Second Green Revolution to unleash the tremendous growth potential in Indian agriculture and agro-based industries, eliminating waste in the food chain, and to ensure doubling of income of even a marginal farmer by 2010. |

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Bringing vibrancy to small-scale industries, cottage enterprises and activities of rural artisans; revitalization of traditional industries like textiles; and giving due recognition and full encouragement to the informal sector of the economy. |

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Giving India a world-class infrastructure in power, telecom and IT, roads, railways, air travel, ports, shipping and inland navigation, markets and the financial sector. |

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Making India a major exporting nation, a global manufacturing hub; a preferred service provider to the world; a preferred country for higher education and healthcare; a leading creator of R&D; putting India at the centre of the Knowledge Economy; and making India a major tourist destination in the world. |

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Preparing India for the momentous shift taking place in the world economy, in which low-cost economies can score a big march over high-cost economies by building competitive strengths in manufacturing and services; enriching our human resources and reforming our economy towards this end, and turning our young population into a huge opportunity in the era of globalization. |

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Dealing with the challenge of water on a war-footing with a three-pronged approach: Launch of the River-Linking Project; Massive encouragement for micro initiatives such as watershed management, checkdams, rainwater harvesting, drip irrigation, etc; Cleaning up of rivers and traditional water bodies. |

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A massive rural development programme based on the concept of an Ideal Indian Village. |

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A massive urban renewal programme, based on the concept of an Ideal Indian City. |

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Comprehensive Good Governance Reforms, encompassing administrative reforms, judicial reforms, electoral reforms, devolution of powers to States and effective empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions and urban local bodies. |

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Commitment to construction of a magnificent Ram Mandir at Ayodhya; Amicable resolution of the issue through dialogue for starting a new chapter in Hindu-Muslim relations; |

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Educational development, economic upliftment, and empowerment of minorities; and ending the majority-minority distinction in politics. |

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Vigorous pursuit of the ideals of social justice, economic justice and empowerment of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Nomadic and Denotified Tribes, OBCs, and the poor among the Forward Classes. |

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Ban on religious conversions through fraudulent and coercive means. |

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Intensification of the peace and development process in Jammu & Kashmir and the North-East. Ensuring early return of Kashmiri Pandits and other displaced people to their native places. |

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Commitment to women’s all-round empowerment; the BJP is ready to back any consensus formula to ensure early legislation for women’s reservation in Parliament and State Legislatures. |

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Legislation to ensure that important offices of the Indian State can be occupied only by those who are India’s natural citizens by their Indian origin. |

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Empowerment of the Civil Society to promote people’s participation in development at all levels and for creating effective dispute resolution mechanisms outside the realm of the government and the judiciary. |

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Making population control a people’s movement, with non-coercive disincentives for a two-child norm, and incentives for a girl child. |

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Preservation and propagation of India’s rich cultural heritage. |

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Unleashing ‘Yuva Shakti’ and making India a major sports power in the world. |

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Intensifying dialogue with Pakistan to find a lasting solution to all bilateral issues; working for a multi-polar world, with India as one of the poles; further raising India’s standing in the world; and securing for India a meaningful and steadily growing role in international affairs. |
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