Sankalp Patra’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president Amit Shah, and other senior party leaders in New Delhi has nothing Goa-specific in it. However, the poll manifesto carries various general assurances, in a number of sectors – from tourism to coastal development to benefit for the small shopkeepers – that can be applicable to Goa, along with many other coastal Indian states. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant informed that the state BJP unit had recommended to the central leadership of the party some local issues for their inclusion in the BJP manifesto, such as starting of mining operations, tourism expansion, additional infrastructure development and scheduled tribe status to the Dhanagar community.