To counter the shrill and muscular nationalist campaign of the Modi camp, and to bring back the debate to domestic issues from Pakistan and terror, the Congress and Rahul Gandhi have announced an attractive minimum income guarantee scheme. Called the Nyunatam Aay Yojana – the acronym NYAY or ‘Justice’ – it promises a guaranteed income of Rs 12,000 a month to the country’s very poor if the pary is voted to power in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
NYAY seems to be designed on the hugely successful ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan that won the 1971 polls for Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother, Indira […]
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