Rahul Gandhi says ‘NYAY is Congress’s surgical strike on poverty’
Rahul Gandhi.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday, claimed that NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana or minimum income scheme) is a “surgical strike” against poverty.
Gandhi while addressing a rally in Ganganagar said, “For the last five years, Narendra Modi ji has been trying to make two India. One of the rich, of private airplanes, of people like Anil Ambani, and second of farmers, small traders and the unemployed. In Modi’s Hindustan, only the rich can dream.”
Gandhi assailed the NDA government for “bringing poverty in the last 5 years through their policies like demonetization”. He said “For months, we had been discussing what to do about it. We had been planning and wanted to find a way to pull people out of poverty. And it is shameful for the entire country that 25 crore people are still in poverty in the 21st century. So, we had been working for six months on how to wage a war on poverty and remove poverty from India. So, we decided that if Narendra Modi ji gives money to the rich, then the Congress party will give money to the poor.”
He further declared that once the Congress assumes power at the Centre, the “minimum income line” would be ₹12,000 per month. “Whoever is below this line will be given the money to bring his minimum wage to ₹12,000.”
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