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New govt will transfer Rs 1 lakh into accounts of women from SC and ST categories: Rahul Gandhi
Apr-08-2024

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has expressed confidence to win the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and assured that the new government will transfer Rs 1 lakh annually into accounts of women belonging to SC, ST, and backward categories.

Addressing a rally in Dhanora village of Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla Lok Sabha Constituency, Rahul Gandhi said, ‘Our manifesto mentions three to four revolutionary steps taken by us like transferring Rs 1 lakh into (bank) accounts of women belonging to SC and ST categories, backward classes, and for women from poor families. This way we will provide thousands of rupees in their accounts every month’. Congress also promised to double the money being paid to Asha and Anganwadi workers.

Former Congress chief further said, ‘We will also bring a new law to ensure that every unemployed youth in the country gets a one-year apprenticeship in the public and private sector during which they will also get Rs one lakh as allowance. He also said that after forming a government at the Centre, they will end the contractual system in employment and will fill 30 lakh vacancies in the government sector.

Rahul Gandhi alleged the BJP has been purposely terming tribal people as ‘vanvasis’ instead of calling them ‘adivasis’ with a motive to uproot them from their land and snatch their first right on the water, forest and land. The Congress party has fielded former minister and MLA Omkar Singh Markam from the Mandla constituency against the sitting MP and Union minister Faggan Singh Kulaste.


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