The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, if it came to power after the Lok Sabha elections, would have promotion of the manufacturing sector as its priority, said Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh at the party’s national council meeting on Saturday.

He said his alliance’s government would aim to increase the share of manufacturing in India’s gross domestic product from the current 15-16 per cent to 20 per cent.

According to him, the country’s current account deficit has widened because manufacturing has been ignored.

The BJP president said his government would make the country’s taxation system less complicated but did not mention any proposal to do away with all major taxes and bring a bank transaction taxation, a move his party is said to be considering.

Other party leaders said BJP had decided to drop the proposal but Singh said his government would 'provide substantial relief to income-tax paying middle class'.

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