Lok Sabha elections | Union Minister Rajnath Singh to head BJP’s manifesto committee
The Hindu
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh leads BJP's manifesto committee for Lok Sabha polls with Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will head the BJP's 27-member manifesto committee for the Lok Sabha polls as the party brainstorms and seeks suggestions from people across the country for its election promises.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be the committee's convener and another Union minister Piyush Goyal its co-convener.
Several other Union Ministers, besides Chief Ministers of States such as Gujarat, Assam and Madhya Pradesh, and seasoned hands like Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje are among the members of the committee.
The Election Commission of India will hold a press conference on June 3, a day before the counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha polls. Till the 2019 parliamentary polls, deputy election commissioners used to hold media briefings after each phase of polls, but the practice has been done away with.