Assuring that all poll pledges of the Congress would be

implemented so that poverty in the backward north eastern state is eradicated, Gandhi said one unemployed in each family would be given a job. Besides, the unemployed would be given subsistence allowance and like all other states, government employees would get a pay structure according to the recommendations of the sixth pay commission. He if his party is voted to power, it will provide 35 kg rice per family at the rate of Re one per kilo. Earlier, in another campaign rally in Sonamura in West Tripura district, Gandhi asked the people to vote Congress to power for a "direct relation" between Delhi and Tripura for its development. "There is a government between Delhi and people of Tripura, which eat up all the money for development. We want to set up a direct relation between the people of Tripura and Delhi, which is possible if you bring in Congress at the helm of affairs here," he said. For the Congress, people came first and then the party, while for the CPI-M, party is their priority and people are secondary, he said. Tripura has been under the Left Front rule for two decades now and if it wins this time, it will be its fifth straight term in power.