Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress leaders said NYAY gets its inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi's vision of helping the last man and woman

Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his party, if it were to form the government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha elections, would ensure a minimum income of Rs 6,000 per month to 20 per cent poorest of poor households, or 250 million people.

While the Narendra Modi government had promised to Rs 6,000 per year to poor farmers, the Congress has promised a matching amount to all poor, particularly the landless.

The party, however, scrapped its earlier proposal that envisaged topping up the gap between a poor household’s income to bring it to Rs 12,000. It has now promised