While speaking at Kisan Rally in Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Congress President Rahul Gandhi announced, that “In 2019 Congress-led government” will provide “Minimum Income Guarantee”. He said, “Every poor of the country is going to get Minimum income in his bank account. No one in India will remain without food, no one will remain poor.”
Calling it a historic decision Rahul Gandhi claims that no government in the world has taken this decision.
कांग्रेस पार्टी ने एक ऐतिहासिक निर्णय लिया है कि 2019 चुनाव जीतने के एकदम बाद कांग्रेस पार्टी गारंटी करके न्यूनतम आमदनी देने जा रही है : कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष @RahulGandhi #CongressForMinimumIncomeGuarantee pic.twitter.com/jTttgR2wFB
— Congress (@INCIndia) January 28, 2019
The announcement comes days after Congress chief appointed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia as AICC Genereal Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East and Uttar Pradesh West respectively. In an official notice released, it was notified that “Honourable Congress president has appointed Shrimati Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as AICC General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East,” who will be taking charge with effect in the first week of February.
We cannot build a new India while millions of our brothers & sisters suffer the scourge of poverty.
If voted to power in 2019, the Congress is committed to a Minimum Income Guarantee for every poor person, to help eradicate poverty & hunger.
This is our vision & our promise.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 28, 2019
In the run-up to the elections of the five states in November-December 2018, the Congress President Rahul Gandhi had said that he would change the Chief Minister if they don’t waive off farmer loans in ten days after the coming of the results. Following wins in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan loans were waived off soon after the election results were announced.
On his inaugural Republic Day as the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh Bhagel at an event in capital Raipur had announced his decision to waive irrigation tax of worth Rs 207 crores on farmers.
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