Cong manifesto may promise SC/ST quota in private sector

March 26, 2014 10:09

The Congress is expected to fall back on left-of-centre policies focusing on welfare measures and widening the ambit of rights-based legislations to include healthcare and employment in the party's manifesto, which will be released today.

The crux of the document, to be released by party President Sonia Gandhi in the presence of a galaxy of leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi, will also express a firm resolve to tackle corruption, an issue that has haunted UPA-II in the form of scams like 2G, coal and CWG.

Uplift of 70 crore people falling between middle class and below poverty line, a promise to empower women and increase their representation in politics and strong affirmative action in the private sector could be the other highlights.

The Scheduled Castes Cell of the AICC, headed by Rahul's close aide K Raju, is learnt to have made a strong pitch for a legislation to have a mandatory quota for the SCs/STs in the private sector.

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