Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said it wasn’t his party and allies who divided society, but it was the BJP that had already split the communities by adopting ‘Manusmriti’. He spoke after the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi’s (MVAs) manifesto—Maharashtra Nama—was released in Mumbai on Sunday. Kharge was commenting on PM Narendra Modi’s poll pitch ‘Ek hai toh safe hai’ and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Baten he to katenge’ slogan.

The manifesto that reflected the inclusion of MVA’s all-partner agenda ran into many pages and things to be done in the first 100 days of government. Kharge said the five guarantees that were given already, and the additional manifesto, were not difficult to implement financially because the new MVA government will have the fiscal capacity to manage them without putting the state treasury under stress.