Then → Now

The promise

“If we bring back the money of these thieves and robbers from foreign banks, then each and every poor person of our country will get ₹15–20 lakh for free.” Said at a campaign rally in Kanker, Chhattisgarh.

No such amount has ever been credited to any citizen's bank account. In February 2015, BJP president Amit Shah told ABP News the figure was “a jumla,” saying “15 lakhs will not be credited to anyone's account… it was a way of delivering a speech.” A campaign-trail estimate got recast, after the fact, as a rhetorical device. This exchange is also where “jumla” entered mainstream Indian political vocabulary as shorthand for an empty poll promise. That's where this website's name comes from, too.

The promise

One Rank, One Pension: equal pension for military personnel who retired in the same rank with the same length of service, regardless of when they retired. Promised during the 2014 campaign.

The government formally decided to implement OROP on 7 November 2015, with benefits effective from 1 July 2014 and arrears paid in installments. But ex-servicemen and veterans' organisations objected that the version implemented differed from what the term originally meant, and from the Koshyari Committee's own recommendation. Instead of automatic annual pension equalisation, the government adopted equalisation every five years, a materially weaker definition. The dispute over what “One Rank One Pension” actually means has driven repeated veterans' protests since.

The promise

22 AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) campuses would be established across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, extending premier medical care and medical education beyond the original Delhi campus.

By February 2022, only 6 of the 22 sanctioned AIIMS were fully functional; the other 16 were still incomplete, years behind their original timelines. One case illustrates the gap between announcement and reality: in 2022, government messaging described AIIMS Darbhanga in Bihar as being “opened,” but Alt News found that encroachment-free land had not even been finalised for the site at that point, let alone a building.

The promise

The Namami Gange mission would clean and rejuvenate the Ganga, launched with a ₹20,000 crore outlay and an original five-year window running to March 2021.

The mission's timeline was extended past its original March 2021 end date to March 2026, with budget raised to ₹22,500 crore for this second phase. Of 200 sanctioned sewage-treatment projects, 116 were completed and operational as of the most recent tracking. The Central Pollution Control Board's own water-quality monitoring shows river stretches meeting bathing-water criteria at several points, a genuine result, though that is a narrower bar than “clean.” It took a second five-year phase and more money to get there.

The promise

Make in India would raise manufacturing's share of GDP from about 16% to 25% by 2022, creating 10 crore new manufacturing jobs along the way.

Manufacturing's share of GDP has stayed roughly flat since 2014: around 17–18%, peaking near 18.5% in 2021–22 and dipping to 16.9% the following year. That's nowhere close to 25%. In the decade since launch, the share rose by only about 2.7 percentage points total, and the government's own target date was pushed from 2022 to 2025.

The promise

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao would arrest India's declining child sex ratio and improve girls' education, launched by Modi in Panipat, Haryana.

The national Sex Ratio at Birth did improve, from 918 girls per 1,000 boys in 2014-15 to about 929-934 in more recent years, and 422 of 640 covered districts showed improvement over the scheme's first five years. But the government's own auditor found the picture was uneven: a CAG report found the sex ratio actually worsened in a number of districts, including in Haryana and Punjab, the two states the campaign was launched to address most directly, and the campaign's own budget was criticised for going disproportionately toward publicity rather than the ground-level enforcement work (like sex-selective abortion crackdowns) the scheme was meant to fund.