Congress Minimum Income Guarantee Plan

NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar violated the Model Code of Conduct by speaking against the Congress's NYAY or minimum income guarantee promise plan, the Election Commission said on Friday, rejecting his reply as not satisfactory.

The Congress party's minimum income guarantee scheme will be rolled out in phases and the five crore beneficiary families will be covered in phases, senior leader P Chidambaram said today.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Mayawati, escalating her attack on the Congress today, did not stop at backing her main opponent BJP's trenchant view of Rahul Gandhi's minimum guarantee scheme NYAY. In a tweet, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister once again targeted both parties in the same breath, underscoring that she does not consider herself on t...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi promised a "surgical strike" on poverty a day after he announced the Rs. 6,000-a-month dole plan for India's poorest families, if the party is voted to power. He also kept up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government.

Shatrughan Sinha, the BJP's in-house critic who was snubbed by the party in the national election, praised the Congress's promise of a minimum income guarantee programme that will give up to Rs. 72,000 a year to 20 per cent of India's poorest families. Mr Sinha called it a "masterstroke" by "master of situation" Rahul Gandhi.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Mondayslammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi's promise of a"historic" minimum income guarantee scheme to India's poor, saying that a party with such a terrible track record of poverty alleviation has no right to make lofty assurances.

Calling the Congress President Rahul Gandhi's promise of a minimum income guarantee to poor unimplementable, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar says it is similar in nature to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's "Garibi Hatao" slogan.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that his party will launch a scheme that will provide guaranteed income to the poor people of the country if it is voted to power in the upcoming general elections. He said that the scheme would rid India of poverty and hunger. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP, however, dismissed the plan as a gimmic...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised that his party will give a guaranteed minimum income to the poor people of the country if his party forms a government in 2019. He made the promise at a rally in Chhattisgarh.

NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar violated the Model Code of Conduct by speaking against the Congress's NYAY or minimum income guarantee promise plan, the Election Commission said on Friday, rejecting his reply as not satisfactory.

The Congress party's minimum income guarantee scheme will be rolled out in phases and the five crore beneficiary families will be covered in phases, senior leader P Chidambaram said today.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Mayawati, escalating her attack on the Congress today, did not stop at backing her main opponent BJP's trenchant view of Rahul Gandhi's minimum guarantee scheme NYAY. In a tweet, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister once again targeted both parties in the same breath, underscoring that she does not consider herself on t...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi promised a "surgical strike" on poverty a day after he announced the Rs. 6,000-a-month dole plan for India's poorest families, if the party is voted to power. He also kept up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government.

Shatrughan Sinha, the BJP's in-house critic who was snubbed by the party in the national election, praised the Congress's promise of a minimum income guarantee programme that will give up to Rs. 72,000 a year to 20 per cent of India's poorest families. Mr Sinha called it a "masterstroke" by "master of situation" Rahul Gandhi.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Mondayslammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi's promise of a"historic" minimum income guarantee scheme to India's poor, saying that a party with such a terrible track record of poverty alleviation has no right to make lofty assurances.

Calling the Congress President Rahul Gandhi's promise of a minimum income guarantee to poor unimplementable, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar says it is similar in nature to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's "Garibi Hatao" slogan.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that his party will launch a scheme that will provide guaranteed income to the poor people of the country if it is voted to power in the upcoming general elections. He said that the scheme would rid India of poverty and hunger. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP, however, dismissed the plan as a gimmic...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised that his party will give a guaranteed minimum income to the poor people of the country if his party forms a government in 2019. He made the promise at a rally in Chhattisgarh.