Congress’ national general secretary and Haryana party affairs’ in-charge Deepak Babaria on Sunday said that the party manifesto for the impending state polls will be common man-centric and the party has undertaken an exercise to collect feedback and suggestions from a cross-section of the society to prepare the document.

“The party is reaching out to different sections of the society and taking their feedback and suggestions for the manifesto which will be common man-centric,” Babaria said in the presence of party MLA Geeta Bhukkal, who is the chairperson of the Haryana Congress's manifesto committee.

Babaria alleged that Haryana, which used to be ahead in the country on various developmental parameters during the Congress regime, has fallen behind in the last 10 years under the BJP rule and is now ahead only in “crime, corruption, unemployment and drug menace”.

“We once again want to build a Haryana that was once known for prosperity and overall development,” he said.

“We are inviting different sections of the society, including farmers, youngsters, the poor, weaker sections, traders, government employees, women and others, and holding talks with them,” the Congress leader said.

Hitting out at the BJP, he said, “The award for the most-failed government in the country will go to the BJP government in Haryana.”

Babaria indicated that the party may not project a chief ministerial face for the Haryana Assembly polls slated to be held later this year. The Congress general secretary in-charge of Haryana exuded confidence that his party will win the polls with a big mandate and form its government in the state.

Asked if the Congress will declare its chief ministerial face before the polls like the BJP, Babaria pointed to the party's tradition of not doing any such thing.

Senior Congress leader Bhukkal said that the party has formed 17-18 sub-committees under the main manifesto committee. “We are trying to come up with a very good manifesto for every section of the society,” she said.