Raipur: A promise of recent legal guidelines towards hate crimes and non secular discrimination, a nationwide election fund as a substitute of the “fatally flawed and fully corrupt” electoral bonds, and steps to tighten the anti-defection legislation to cease mass exodus of lawmakers, other than the clarion name to “go all out to identify, mobilize and align like-minded secular forces” capped the political decision of the 85th plenary of the Congress occasion.

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With a collection of meeting polls this 12 months and the Lok Sabha election in 2024, the decision introduced a brand new imaginative and prescient doc for the nationwide election and “the widest possible consensus” with all like-minded political events to take up the problem of EVMs with the Election Commission of India. “And if they do not respond, then go to Court,” the decision mentioned.

The political decision pitched for a National Election Fund to which all might contribute and through elections, “funds will be allocated to political parties using a transparent and fair criterion laid down by law,” the decision mentioned. The electoral bonds have been a serious bone of rivalry and have primarily helped the Bharatiya Janata Party mop up funds by donations.

Most of the ideas within the decision might be later integrated within the manifesto of the Congress, a Congress chief mentioned, declining to be named.

Along with these planks, the decision adopted within the plenary on Saturday vowed to guard the independence of the judiciary and media and provoke a “comprehensive review of all laws, rules and regulations to repeal those that are outdated, unjust, or unreasonably restrict the freedoms of the people”.

The decision spoke of an anti- discrimination legislation aimed to ban discrimination on the premise of “religion, caste, gender or language in the supply of goods and services”. Similarly, the principal opposition occasion promised to “pass a new law to prevent and punish hate crimes”.

Pushing for alliances forward of the meeting polls and the Lok Sabha election, the Congress’s political decision mentioned: “Unity of secular and socialist forces will be the hallmark of the future of the Congress party. Congress should go all out to identify, mobilize and align like-minded secular forces. We should include secular regional forces who agree with our ideology. There is an urgent need for a united opposition to take on the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) on common ideological grounds. Emergence of any third force will provide advantage to the BJP/NDA.”

It additionally mentioned that wherever the Congress is the primary opposition occasion, “we should be a responsible and responsive opposition. While campaigning, focus should be on the respective local issues” and the “well-crafted and thoroughly deliberated Udaipur Nav Sankalp will be taken up on a mission mode”.

The Congress demanded a strong private information safety legislation to finish authorities surveillance of residents, assured reintroduction and passage of the Grievance Redressal Bill, 2011, to supply for well timed grievance redressal.

The decision requested all India Congress committee (AICC) to implement all of the resolutions, particularly these of the group in letter and spirit inside an instantaneous timeframe.

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On anti-defection, the draft decision mentioned: “The Congress pioneered the Constitutional Amendment on anti-defection, and took several measures during the UPA-2 government to strengthen it. Since 2014, the BJP has engineered mass defections, purchased legislators and thus toppled democratically elected government after government. The Congress will amend the Constitution to eliminate such practices.”

The Congress decision described the present regime as a “disastrous situation of fear, hate and intimidation,” alleged the BJP and its authorities has sought to demolish the nationwide ethos and distorted all three arms of presidency and the media to guard their pursuits over the individuals’s pursuits. “Every institution has been subverted, undermined and threatened,” the decision mentioned. “Democracy is on the verge of being expunged from India.”