Why Congress’s universal basic income promise in Kerala is not far-fetched

Why Congress’s universal basic income promise in Kerala is not far-fetched

Interacting with students, Rahul Gandhi said democracy is declining in the country. File Photo The Congress, in its 2019 election manifesto, introduced the concept of Nyay, or Universal Basic Income, a concept pushed by Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India. It did not get any traction with the electorate as the Congress lost badly as a nationalistic wave swept the country after the Pulwama attack. Rahul Gandhi, however, is persisting with the concept and built the campaign in Kerala in this election around Nyay.

Economists are divided on this notion as this grand welfare project slowly […]

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