Rahul pledges Rs 1 Cr to each village panchayat, Rs 5,000 Cr for Kalyana Karnataka region
Should his party come to power in the State Assembly polls on May 10th, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has pledged to allocate Rs. 1 crore to every village panchayat and Rs. 5,000 crore towards the development of Kalyana Karnataka region.
पहली कैबिनेट मीटिंग में हम 5 Guarantee पूरी करेंगे।
5वीं Guarantee – कर्नाटक की सभी महिलाओं को सरकारी बसों में मुफ़्त यात्रा की सुविधा।
भाजपा की 40% सरकार ने कर्नाटक के लोगों से चोरी की। हम उन्हें उनका पैसा, उनका हक़ दिलाएंगे।#5CongressGuarantees pic.twitter.com/p8XUlJvrjW
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 27, 2023
Amid rains, the former Congress chief addressed an election rally, where he also promised to fill 50,000 government job vacancies.
We will allocate Rs 5,000 crore for this region. Each village panchayat will get Rs one crore, a drenched Gandhi said here in Kalaburagi district.
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The Kalyana Karnataka region comprises the districts of Bidar, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal, Kalaburagi, Ballari and Vijayanagara.
He also made a prophecy that the ruling BJP would get only 40 seats “since it loves this number”. Gandhi alleged that the BJP ministers in Karnataka collected 40 per cent commission for public works from contractors and hence, the party would not get more than 40 seats, while the Congress would win 150 seats and form the next government.
Calling the incumbent BJP government “a government by theft”, he said the ruling party purchased MLAs from opposition ranks.
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We are going to form the government. No one can stop our party from coming to power, Rahul said.
He also reiterated the four key “guarantees” of the Congress: Rs 2,000 to woman head of family, 200 units of free power to every household, Rs 3,000 to unemployed graduates and Rs 1,500 to unemployed diploma holders (both in the age group of 18 to 25 years) for two years, and 10 kg rice to every member of a BPL family a month.
Apart from this, Rahul also announced the party’s fifth “guarantee” on Thursday: free bus ride for women in public transport buses.
(With agency inputs)
