Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference in Dubai | PTI Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s pronouncement in Chhattisgarh on the party’s commitment to provide a basic income for India’s poor has definitely pushed the Union government on the back foot, at a time when lack of employment opportunities and low wages are increasingly dominating the disenchanted public discourse.
Narrower variants of this concept have already been tried and tested in a few states including Telangana, through the Rythu Bandhu scheme, and in Odisha, through the KALIA scheme. However, this marks the first time that a national party has committed […]
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