Congress is bluffing people: Jaitley on Rahul's minimum income scheme

Jaitley said no political party has betrayed India for more than seven decades other than the Congress.

After the Congress unveiled its big-bang poll promise of guaranteed minimum income of Rs 6,000 per month to 20 per cent poorest of the poor families, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accused Congress of “bluffing” the people.

The FM said the devil of the scheme lay in its details. He said the United Progressive Alliance-1 government prom­ised a farm loan waiver of Rs 70,000 crore in 2008, but waived loans worth only Rs 52,000 crore, and the Comp­troller and Auditor General said it helped businesspersons in Delhi. In comparision, the Modi government has committed to Rs 75,000 crore per annum for farmers.