Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi while addressing a rally in Basti as part of his election campaign in Uttar Pradesh said that BJP never talked about poverty or the issues of the poor.
“The BJP and NDA talked about many things like terrorism. In fact the poverty is the biggest threat for development at present. The issues of the poor, backward class are supreme. But the BJP and NDA never talked about these” blamed Rahul Gandhi.
“What did we do? We came to you and asked about your difficulties. You had told us that there are no sufficient jobs available in the villages. The people are forced to migrate to big cities for jobs. So the first thing we did was to implement MNREGA, the biggest employment guarantee scheme, to guarantee jobs for all. By this biggest employment generation scheme poor are assured of jobs if they intend to work. Every poor is assured of 100 days of work at a daily wages of Rs 120 thus amounting to Rs 12,000 a year,” said Rahul Gandhi on UPA’s Mahatma Gandhi NREGA policy.
“Then we went to the farmers and asked about their problems. They told us that the doors of the banks are closed for them and many of them are being burdened with huge loans. The Centre took necessary measures to open the doors of the banks for the farmers and also framed a policy to waive off loan of the poor farmers worth Rs. 60000 crore” informed Rahul Gandhi.
“When drought-hit Bundelkhand was crying for help neither Mayawati Ji nor Mulayam Ji went there. I had personally requested the Chief Minister to kindly go there. But she refused,” said Rahul Gandhi.
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