Every rupee. Every contract. Every milestone.
A public financial dashboard, published live. No procurement is private. No cost overrun is invisible. Every transfer of public money sits on one ledger any citizen can read — searchable, drillable, downloadable.
Care no one can predict, no one should bear alone.
By Year 10, every Karnataka resident has free diagnostic-and-treatment access for every unforeseen serious illness — every district hospital and tertiary hub equipped, with no means test. Elective and lifestyle care remains paid. What you cannot predict and cannot bear alone is the state's burden.
Karnataka becomes one school.
Libraries, parks, transit hubs, markets and primary health centres become public-space learning surfaces. A BBC-trust-style state broadcaster. A Higher Education Campus in every district. A Karnataka Apex Institute as the flagship. Six statutory durability mechanisms keep it alive across elections.
Students clean their own school.
A daily cleaning roster in every government school and state-funded college. Equal participation by every student regardless of caste, gender or background. Cleaning what you study in is part of learning to be a citizen.
The party builds the platform. The government runs the state.
No party office holds executive power over the civil service. No civil servant takes party direction outside Cabinet decisions. The Constitution governs; the manifesto persuades. We refuse the fusion that lets parties capture the machinery of the state.
One state. One app. Total access.
Every citizen service through one accountable front door. Health records, school case files, certificates, complaints, ratings, payments — on a single app that works offline, in Kannada first, and never asks you to upload the same document twice.
We don't believe in power. We believe in responsibilities.
Every position in this party — from booth volunteer to elected representative — is a responsibility taken on, not a power claimed. Office is something you owe back to citizens. The recall mechanism exists for the day it stops being so.
We do not believe in power. We believe in responsibilities.
Every position in this party — from booth volunteer to elected representative — is a responsibility taken on, not a power claimed. Office is something you owe back to citizens, not something you possess. The recall mechanism exists for the day it stops being so. Read more →
Karnataka is not short of laws. It is short of execution.
Hundreds of welfare programmes. Dozens of expert committees. Thousands of orders. And still — a routine certificate takes weeks. Roads are rebuilt every monsoon and broken every monsoon. The medicine you need is out of stock. This is not a policy gap. It is an execution gap. The People's Model is the redesign.
A single state operating spine
One identity, one service registry, one citizen case file, one Open Ledger, one grievance system — all anchored through the Karnataka State Service Log (KSSL).
Outcome budgeting & open contracting
Every rupee tagged to a measurable outcome. Every contract on the Open Contracting Data Standard. Every payment tied to milestone evidence anyone can verify.
State capacity over contractor dependency
A Project Delivery Cadre and a Karnataka State Works Corps that bring engineering, maintenance, and essential manufacturing back in-house where markets have failed.
A 24/7 governance engine
Mission Control workflows. Service charters for the top 100 services. Automatic escalation when deadlines slip. Citizen ratings that trigger audits, not anniversaries.
Digital rights as default
The Citizen Data Trust gives residents ownership of their data. The AI-Use Register lists every state AI. The Grievance Justice Authority gives appeals statutory teeth.
Three commitments worth knowing before you read further.
Of the hundreds of commitments inside the manifesto, three are worth meeting on the homepage. Two are entitlements that change what the state owes residents; one is a daily practice that changes what we ask of every student.
Universal free coverage of every unforeseen serious illness.
Primary and secondary care free at point of care from Year 1. The Catastrophic Care Fund covers tertiary and rare-disease care by Year 5. By Year 10, every Karnataka-domiciled resident has free access to the full diagnostic-and-treatment stack — every district hospital and tertiary hub equipped — with no means test. Elective and lifestyle care remains paid. What a citizen cannot predict and cannot bear alone is the state's burden.
The Learning State.
Karnataka becomes a single educational institution — for every citizen, at every age. Public-space learning surfaces in 7,000 libraries, parks, transit hubs, markets and PHCs. The Karnataka Public Broadcaster (KPB) with BBC-trust-style independence. A district + taluk museum network. A District Higher Education Campus (DHEC) in every district. The Karnataka Apex Institute (KAI) as state flagship. Six statutory durability mechanisms ensure the second 5 years happen regardless of who wins the next election.
Students clean their own school.
Every government school and state-funded college schedules a daily cleaning window — students clean their own classrooms, corridors, playgrounds. Published rosters; equal participation by every student regardless of caste, gender, or background. Supervised by teachers, with a new Sanitation & Lifestyle Educator cadre in larger schools. Cleaning the space you study in is part of learning to be a citizen.
One spine, four front doors, six publishing surfaces.
The operating spine has three architectural layers. Four front doors are the interaction layer — one per audience. Six publishing surfaces are the data layer — each purpose-built for a specific class of state data. The Karnataka State Service Log (KSSL) ties them together with mediation, append-only logging, and public cryptographic anchoring.
One audience, one door.
- JANATA Citizens · phone-first, Kannada-first, offline-capable
- Officer Console Government workflow · for every state employee
- Business Portal Firms · suppliers · tax · single window
- Civil Society Interface APIs · bulk data · independent verifier mode
All four are open-source; civil society can run their own builds.
Right data, right governance.
- Open Ledger Financial spine · every rupee, contract, milestone
- AI-Use Register Governance of all AI deployed by the state
- Karnataka Open Data Portal Public datasets · machine-readable
- Citizen Data Trust Personal records · consent-based
- Karnataka Digital Twin Geospatial raw store · 3D state model
- Sector operational systems Each governed by its sector authority
Mediation, logging, anchoring.
- Append-only ledger Every inter-system call logged · never rewritten
- Citizen consent tokens No record accessed without an active token
- Signed receipts Every state action gets a cryptographic receipt
- Independent witnesses Civil-society verifier nodes co-sign critical state transitions