Women suffer most due to inflation: Rahul Gandhi after launching K'taka scheme
Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said women were the ones who suffered the blow of inflation as he explained the rationale behind the guarantee schemes his party's government was implementing in Karnataka.
«I have met several women in the Bharat Jodo yatra, and in the 600 km I travelled across Karnataka, thousands of women told me they couldn't bear inflation,» he said.
Gandhi was speaking at a massive launch of the Congress government's Gruha Lakshmi scheme in Mysuru, where he transferred Rs 2,000 each into the bank accounts of 10.8 million women beneficiaries with a click on a tablet.
The recently reinstated MP also slammed the central government, accusing it of working for billionaires. «We think that the government should work for the poor and the weak,» he said.
Under the Gruha Lakshmi scheme, which is the fourth of the Congress government's five major pre-poll guarantees to be implemented, women heads of low-income households in the state receive ₹2,000 in their bank accounts every month.
The government will be spending ₹17,500 crore on the programme this year.
The Congress has been making a concerted effort to gain women's confidence since the run-up to the assembly election. The party is already popular among women after the new regime introduced the Shakti scheme, providing free rides for women in government buses across the state.
The Gruha Lakshmi scheme was launched with far more grandeur than the previous guarantees, with All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge also participating in the event.
With the recent assembly win, the looming Lok Sabha polls are a prestige issue for Kharge, as Karnataka is his home state. The party had a poor run in 2019, winning just one Lok Sabha seat while the BJP won
