Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress leaders said NYAY gets its inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi's vision of helping the last man and woman

Elections :Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow managed to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base salary of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent least fortunate of poor families, or 250 million individuals.
While the Narendra Modi government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the Congress has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless.
The gathering, in any case, rejected its prior recommendation that visualized garnish up the hole between a poor family's pay to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month recompense, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family's salary is underneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said a board of trustees of gathering pioneers, which included Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, had determined that the essential living pay every family needs to endure is Rs 12,000.Read More

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