Jana Sangh People's Party Programme

(Approved by a conference of original members of the party)

• 1. The Party will give its first and foremost attention to the supply of food and cloth at reasonable prices. It will also be its immediate endeavour to secure reductions in the prices of other essential commodities. Unemployment will also receive its earnest attention. In carrying on its activities, the Party will try to create an enthusiasm in the heart of the nation and adopt a programme which will inspire all sections of the people to work for a common national purpose.

• 2. While not ignoring the beneficial effects on the country of long-term schemes like river-vally projects and reclamation of land, immediate attention will have to be devoted to increasing the production of food-crops and other agricultural commodities from existing acreage of land. It will be possible to raise the yeield per acre through small-scale irrigation schemes and the more plentiful supply of seeds, manure and implements. Uncultivated land will be requisitioned wherever necessary and co-operative farming will be encouraged.

• The party will advocate a more rational procurement polity which will instead of impeding help production.

• 3. The Party believes that our economic salvation lies in increasing production and in adopting a fair and more equitable system of distribution. The party's activities will be constantly and considerably directed towards this end.

• 4. The Party will work for planned decentralisation of industries and the development of small and medium-size industries aiming at regional self-sufficiency as far as possible and combating unemployment, particularly amongst the poor and middle class people.

• 5. The Party will seek to improve relations between capital and labour and will encourage arbitration in order to avoid strikes and lock-outs.

• 6. Planned re-orientation of the education system in all its stages and re-organisation of measures for preventing and curing diseases, specially malaria, cholera and tuberculosis, will be undertaken.

• 7. The party will devote its special attention to the improvement of the social, economic and educational advancement of the backward sections of the population.