Congress will launch 'surgical strike' on poverty: Rahul Gandhi

26 Mar 2019 Evaluate

Congress president Rahul Gandhi has promised a ‘surgical strike’ on poverty and said his party had been working on how to eradicate it for the last six months. Gandhi said that ‘We will eradicate poverty in the country. This is a 'dhamaka'. No country has done this in history. There should not be a single poor person in the country’. He also said that his party would work to reduce unemployment if it comes to power.

He added that ‘If Modi gives money to the rich, the Congress will give money to the poor’.  Alleging that Modi had helped those who had black money, the Congress president said those lifted from poverty by the UPA government had again been made poor in the last five years.  According to him, 14 crore people were lifted from poverty by the UPA government. He opined that ‘It is a shame that there are still 25 crore poor people in the country’. He told the gathering that ‘You will get the right price for your labour and product’.

The UPA government had launched schemes over 10 years but Modi ended them all, the Congress chief said, adding that the prime minister had failed to understand the MGNREGA job scheme.

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