Arun Jaitley calls Rahul Gandhi’s promise of minimum income as ‘bluff’, says ‘Congress betrayed India for over 70 years’ 

Arun Jaitley.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, on Monday, criticized Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s promise of providing a minimum of ₹72,000 a year to the poor under the Nyuntam Aay Yojana. He said the Congress has a “history of swindling people in name of poverty alleviation” while the Narendra Modi-led government has “already given the poor what Congress promises”.

Jaitley, in a blogpost, said, “The latest announcement of the Congress party if tested on simple arithmetic then ₹72,000 is less than two-thirds of the existing DBT under Modi government, which averages ₹1.068 lakh annually. So what is being claimed by the Congress party — a bluff announcement.”

He added, “No political party has betrayed India for more than seven decades other than the Congress party. It gave to the people of India many slogans and very little resources to implement them.”

Here is Arun Jaitley’s full blogpost:

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