Socialist Party (India)

PARTY OBJECTIVES

• Develop a socialist agro-industrial development model which will benefit the majority of the country’s population, including its farmers and working-class people.
• Ensure rural and Adivasi communities have sovereignty over the water, land and forest resources they are dependent on.
• Work towards the annihilation of the caste system. Expansion and effective implementation of caste-based reservations is an important component in the fulfilment of this objective.
• Ensure the right to employment for every adult.
• Reform the education system, making education, both basic and higher, free and open for all.
• Ensure the right to quality healthcare for every Indian.
• Implement a national wage policy which sets the national minimum wage at an amount that ensures the dignity and wellbeing of all working-class people.
• Undertake comprehensive land reform, ensuring no person engaged in agricultural activity is landless. The land rights of Dalit and Adivasi communities in particular must be ensured and protected.
• Stop the development of nuclear armaments and nuclear energy, create policies for the development of alternative, sustainable energy sources in India.
• Establish a new political culture, oriented towards the needs of common people, with the help of election reforms by ending the influence of money and muscle power on election outcomes.
• Provide comprehensive social security for those in the unorganized sector of the economy.
• Establish a universal public distribution system to ensure national food security.
• Mobilize public opinion for the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill, with the implementation of caste-based reservations within the women’s quota to ensure representation of women from all sections of society in the legislature.
• Implement the recommendations of the Rajinder Sachar Committee and work towards ensuring equity and equality of opportunity to all minority communities in India.