Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that his party had lifted 15 crore people out of poverty in the country. He was addressing an election rally here. This is his second visit to Chhattisgarh to campaign for his party’s candidates. Gandhi had earlier addressed a public meeting at Maoist hotbed Kondagaon in Bastar on March 31.
“In 2014, when we win the polls and the UPA forms the Government, once again, I will tell what we will do, we will give you three more rights,” he said. “The Congress understands your plight and we will give you a Right to Health,” he said, adding, “We want that your child gets guaranteed medicines and gets admitted in hospitals. When it is raining, water drips from the roof of a poor farmer’s dwelling. We want to give you a permanent roof that will ensure an end to this problem,” Gandhi said.
He said that the Congress party would give a ‘Right to Pension’ to old people. The Congress vice-president said that the Congress party created industrial corridors. “We created industrial corridors so that the youth of Chhattisgarh could find job opportunities,” Gandhi added. The Congress party has benefited crores of people with the launch of MGNREGS. The Food Security Bill now passed in Parliament guarantees food for all, he said.