Chhattisgarh Assembly polls: Rahul Gandhi promises free treatment facility, ₹10,000 per year for landless labourers
Rahul Gandhi, who is currently in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Sunday announced free treatment facilities up to ₹10 lakh for the poor if the party retains power in the state. Addressing an election rally in Rajnandgaon, the Congress MP from Wayanad constituency in Kerala promised to provide ₹10,000 per year to landless rural labourers if the party retains power. Gandhi said the Congress government is the government of the poor, labourers, farmers, backward classes, tribals and Dalits and it listens to the voice of their hearts.
“You need not speak, we can hear the voice of your hearts. This morning, Baghel ji and I did some work for farmers and labourers and spoke to them. They told us that what the Congress government has done for them in five years, no other government has done ever," PTI quoted the former Congress president as saying.
"During our interaction with farmers and labourers, they told us that ₹7,000 (the amount given under the Rajiv Gandhi Bhoomihin Kisan Nyay Yojna) is less. We held a discussion in the car and decided that it would now be ₹10,000," he added. Gandhi said “Five years ago, in a similar meeting, Bhupesh Baghel, I and the senior leaders of the Congress party had made three-four promises to the people of Chhattisgarh.
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