The Swatantra Manifesto

A declaration

A party built on these points should exist. We call on the capable people of India to step up and build it. If no one does, the citizens behind this site will.

Corruption

Corruption cases tried on a clock in dedicated special courts: verdict within eighteen months, and the stolen assets traced, seized and returned to the public exchequer — not settled with a resignation.
Every public servant's assets — and those of their immediate family — declared and published every year, with disproportionate wealth flagged for investigation automatically. Sunlight before suspicion.
Statutory protection for the whistleblower who reports corruption: identity shielded, job secured, and a lawful share of what is recovered — so telling the truth is never the costliest choice.
An anti-corruption ombudsman with its own investigators and budget, empowered to act on any citizen's complaint and bound to publish what it finds — independent of the very government it is meant to watch.

Education

A nutritious mid-day meal is a right, not a scheme. A hungry child cannot learn; feed every child, every school day, and that is how you ensure good education.
Clean toilets and safe drinking water in every school, working every day — sanitation is part of learning, not separate from it.
A trained, respected, fairly paid teacher in every classroom, present and accountable — good teachers are the foundation of good education.
Abolish the National Testing Agency and put in its place a statutory national examinations authority, fully accountable to government and Parliament for every paper it conducts — technology-backed, tamper-evident, auditable end to end, so that no leak, no tout and no middleman stands between a student and their seat.
Research is how a nation stops copying and starts building: raise public R&D spending decisively, and make a research career in India worth staying for.

Healthcare

A strong public health system is not charity, it is the bare minimum: double public health spending on a five-year clock — from roughly 1.3% toward the 2.5% of GDP the nation has long promised itself — so care does not depend on the size of your wallet.
A functioning primary health centre within reach of every village is the bare minimum: every centre staffed, stocked and open — with its staffing, medicine stock and days-open published on a public dashboard, centre by centre, for any citizen to check.
Essential medicines and common diagnostics inside the public package, free at the point of care and priced openly everywhere else — so no family is bankrupted by falling ill, and a blood test is never a luxury.
No emergency patient turned away for want of a deposit — a statutory right to emergency care. Care first, deposit never.
Rebuild public hospitals to a published quality standard so the public system becomes the default choice, not the last resort — the private sector stays, but no one is forced into it by a broken public door.

Agriculture

A fair price for the crop, announced before sowing and guaranteed at procurement as a legal floor the buyer cannot go below — so farming is a livelihood, not a gamble against the weather and the market.
Every rupee of farm support and every quintal procured paid directly into the farmer's account and traceable end to end on a public ledger — no middleman skims between the treasury and the field.
A market, a cold store and a certified weighbridge within reach of every farming block is the bare minimum — so what is grown is not lost between the field and the buyer, and honest weight is the rule, not the exception.
Crop-loss compensation and insurance paid on a fixed clock: from verified claim to payout within eight weeks, or interest owed to the farmer for every day of delay — so a failed harvest never becomes a spiral of debt.

Employment & Economy

Put money back in the hands of those who earn and spend it: raise the income-tax exemption threshold sharply, so a middle-class household pays no tax until well past a living wage — spending power, not austerity, is the engine of growth.
End the layering of cess upon surcharge upon tax — one honest rate a citizen can compute, with no hidden levy that quietly escapes the pool every state is meant to share.
Zero GST on every essential of living — food, medicine, health and life insurance — and on education and healthcare in their entirety, down to the shroud a family buys for its dead. The state must never tax survival, learning, healing, or grief.
Register a small business in a single day through one honest window, with clear rules and no bribe to breathe — and MSME dues cleared within 45 days or interest owed, so the smallest firm is never made the government's unpaid creditor.
Wages paid in full and on time is the bare minimum: a statutory penalty on the employer — public or private — for every day a worker's due is withheld, so no one who does the work has to beg for it.

Justice & Police

Statutory trial clocks for every stage, and detention past the clock means automatic bail — backed by enough judges, courts and public defenders funded to make those clocks honest, not paper promises. Justice delayed is a punishment of its own.
A transparent, published judicial-appointments process, and a three-year cooling-off period before any retiring judge may take a government post — so no verdict is ever shadowed by the job that might follow it.
Statutory independence for investigative agencies under bipartisan oversight, repeal of Section 17A's shield on investigating public servants, and prosecution statistics — cases opened, charged, convicted — published every quarter.
Filing an FIR is the bare minimum of justice, not a favour granted: every complaint registered at once, without fear or price, and the citizen's copy in hand before they leave the station.
One law for the minister and the mason: a police force insulated from political transfer-posting through fixed tenures, with an independent complaints authority and a published, time-bound process for acting on complaints against its own.

Environment

Clean air to breathe and safe water to drink is the bare minimum: real-time air and water quality published for every city and town, with a legally binding clean-up deadline wherever the reading crosses the safe line.
No net loss of forest or wetland: every tree felled and every hectare diverted logged in public and matched by verified restoration, audited by an independent body — not compensatory afforestation that exists only on paper.
Clean energy built to a published national target and timeline, with the grid data open — so growth and green become the same road, and any citizen can watch the transition happen, year by year.
Clean public spaces and green cover in every city is the bare minimum: a published minimum of green space per resident, protected by law from encroachment — a country beautiful to live in is a country worth building.

Transparency & Technology

Every government rupee live-traceable on one public, real-time ledger — every payment, contract and tender, from the treasury to the last hand that spends it, updated as it happens and open to any citizen. Sunlight on the whole path.
Government data open by default: every budget, contract, tender outcome and public dataset machine-readable and free, with the burden on the state to justify what it withholds — not on the citizen to pry it loose.
A public service that works online the first time is the bare minimum: a legal service-delivery guarantee with a fixed deadline and automatic compensation when the state misses it — no queue, no tout, no bribe for what is already your right.
A statutory right to privacy under an independent data-protection authority: no surveillance without a judge's warrant, no personal data held longer than its purpose, and technology never turned to watch a citizen — nor, ever, to silence one.