Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that unemployment had surged to 45-year high during the BJP regime and people must get rid of Prime Minister Narendra Modi if they wanted to see country to prosper.
Rs Rs The unemployment rate in the country stands at 45-year high due to demonetisation and the Gabbar Singh Tax’’ (which he refers generally to GST), the Congress president remarked at an election rally in Bilaspur.
He further said that during demonetisation money was taken out from pockets of common people and were put in banks and later passed on to a group of business persons.
He promised a separate budget for farmers if Congress is voted to power and added, “whenever farmers seek loan waiver, the demand will be met’’.
Gandhi stated that the NYAY, the minimum income scheme promised by his party, will act like Rs petrol’ and revive the economy’. Rs Rs With the NYAY scheme, people will be able to buy things they need which will revive manufacturing units and thereby generate employment opportunities,’’ he said amid loud cheering at the rally.
Chhattisgarh has 11 Lok Sabha seats and so far voting for four constituencies had been held including Bastar that went to polls in the first phase on April 11. Voting for remaining seven seats will be held on April 23. The Congress had won just one out of the total 11 seats in 2014 general election in Chhattisgarh.