Minimum income to every poor person if we come to power: Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi made the announcement at a public rally in Chhattisgarh where he distributed symbolic loan waiver certificates to farmers.

By: Express Web Desk

New Delhi | Updated: January 28, 2019 05:40 PM IST

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Rahul Gandhi handing over symbolic loan waiver certificates to farmers at a rally in Chhattisgarh. (Express photo)

Upping the ante for the Lok Sabha polls scheduled later this year, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday said that if voted to power, his party will ensure a Minimum Income Guarantee to every poor person in India so that no one goes to sleep hungry.

Gandhi made the announcement at the ‘Kisaan Abhaar Sammelan’ held in Chhattisgarh to express gratitude to people, particularly farmers, for voting the party to power in the state after a gap of 15 years.

Gandhi prefaced his announcement by saying no country in the world has such a scheme and that the Congress has delivered on its previous poll promises, quoting revolutionary programmes such as MGNREGA and RTI among others.

Rahul Gandhi with Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel at the event. (Express photo)

He accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP of trying to create two Indias — “one of the Rafale scam, Anil Ambani, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, Mehul Choksi and the other of the poor farmers”.

Gandhi also distributed symbolic loan waiver certificates to some of the beneficiary farmers. The Congress has waived loans for farmers from cooperative and state-run banks worth above Rs 6,100 crore after coming to power in the state.

The Congress had registered a resounding victory in last year’s state Assembly polls, winning 68 of the total 90 seats.

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