PM Modi takes dig at Rahul's NYAY scheme, says Congress only remembers poor during elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a veiled attack on the Congress’ minimum guarantee scheme for the poorest of families, saying the opposition party remembers the poor of the nation only during election time.

Narendra Modi (Source: PTI)

Kalahandi: Addressing a election rally in Odisha's Kalahandi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a veiled attack on the Congress’ minimum guarantee scheme for the poorest of families, saying the opposition party remembers the poor of the nation only during election time. PM Modi's scathing attack on the Congress party came on a day when INC party president Rahul Gandhi released his party's poll manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. “They keep chanting the word poor during elections, but they snatch the rights of the poor. This is the truth of the claws of Congress, this is their policy and their principles,” said Modi. Congress president Rahul Gandhi recently announced the NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana) scheme that guarantees Rs 72,000 per annum for the poor. The scheme proposed by the Congress has been thought to alleviate poorest 20% households of the country if the grand old party is voted to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The opposition party promised to target five crore families or 25 crore individuals as beneficiaries of NYAY, which Rahul Gandhi has called a “revolutionary” scheme that “will change the face of India”. The Prime Minister was speaking at the Vijay Sankalp Samavesh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bhawanipatna, the district headquarters of Odisha’s Kalahandi. Referring to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s statement on welfare money being embezzled, Modi said the identity of the Congress is associated with Kalahandi.