India’s opposition vows to roll out universal basic income for the poor if it wins election

India’s opposition vows to roll out universal basic income for the poor if it wins election

File: Rahul Gandhi, president of India’s main opposition Congress party, speaks at a news conference India ’s main opposition Congress party has offered to roll out a means-tested universal basic income if it wins the country’s fast-approaching general election.

Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi described the scheme as “the first of its kind in the world”. “We have decided that every poor person in India would be guaranteed a minimum income after the Congress forms the government in 2019,” he said, addressing a farmers’ rally in the central state of Chhattisgarh.

“No one will go hungry in India, no one will […]

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