Congress president Rahul Gandhi stressed that if his government came to power at the Centre, government offices would become totally corruption-free.
Rahul Gandhi also promised the voters that if voted to power, the Congress would refuel the engine of country’s economy through its proposed ‘NYAY’ scheme.
Addressing an election meeting in support of Congress candidate RPN Singh in Kushinagar on Thursday, Rahul expressed concern over corruption rampant in government departments and said, “Congress is committed to wiping out corruption. In India, youths want to set up industries like in China and Japan but their efforts go haywire due to corruption.”
He promised tax sops to all industries for the first three years of their coming into existence.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul said that he (PM) was only lying before the people. “We have worked in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and waived farm loans without bias. Even, former MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s brother has been benefitted from it,” he said.
The Congress president charged that the Prime Minister and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister had falsely promised to reopen Padrauna sugar mills in 100 days.
“The chowkidar with 56-inch chest waived Rs 5.55 lakh crore loans of industrialists and several of them ran away with the money. I want to give this money to the poor,” he said.
Accusing the Prime Minister of taking ‘fuel out of the engine of the country’s economy’, Rahul said that if voted to power, his party would refuel it through the ‘NYAY’ scheme. “We want to return what Modi has snatched from you all,” he told the gathering.
Rahul said that economists had approved the NYAY scheme in Congress poll manifesto which promises Rs 72,000 per year to the poor.
“Modi went for demonetisation and GST (Goods and Services Tax) without advise from economists, leading to closure of several shops and industrial units due to which lakhs of people lost their jobs. But our NYAY scheme will generate jobs,” he claimed.
Rahul also promised to give 22 lakh government jobs within a year of Congress coming to power while 10 lakh jobs would be generated in the Panchayats.
On the promises made in Congress manifesto, he said farmers had suggested that they be told in advance how much funds would be allocated for them at the beginning of every financial year and the party had accepted it.
“Two budgets will be made. The one for farmers will be presented in the Lok Sabha before the general budget,” Gandhi said, adding the Congress has decided that no farmer will be put in jail for not clearing debt after 2019.