India's Congress party promises minority protection and jobs
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New Delhi: India s main opposition party Congress vowed on Friday to protect minorities generally seen as a reference to the country s Muslims w...
New Delhi: India's main opposition party Congress vowed on Friday to protect minorities -- generally seen as a reference to the country's Muslims -- while accelerating growth and jobs in a manifesto for an election it is widely expected to lose.
Nearly a billion Indians will vote to elect a new government in six-week-long parliamentary elections starting on April 19, the largest democratic exercise in the world.
Many analysts see Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election under his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) banner as a foregone conclusion.
Congress led India's independence struggle and dominated politics for most of the next seven decades but its secularist vision has since struggled against the BJP's appeal to members of India's majority faith.
In its manifesto, Congress promised to protect "linguistic and religious minorities".
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