New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised a monthly unemployment allowance of Rs 3,000 to graduates and Rs 1,500 to diploma holders for two years, if the party is voted to power in the imminent state elections.
Addressing a rally at Karnataka’s Belagavi, Rahul said the state’s youth told him during the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” that they could not find jobs.
He promised that the Congress would fill all job vacancies when it came to power.
“People complained that this government was the most corrupt government in India, that this is a ‘40% commission’ government,” Rahul said at the “Yuva Dhwani” event organised by his party.
The Congress has amplified its corruption charge against the BJP-led Karnataka government after MLA Madal Virupaksha’s son Prashant was caught taking a bribe by the state’s Lokayukta in the beginning of March.
On 9 March, the Congress called a two-hour bandh of Karnataka markets, after former chief minister Siddaramaiah led a protest demanding Virupaksha’s arrest.
On Monday, Rahul reiterated his pet charge that “select people who are BJP’s friends are getting all the benefits… it is leading to corruption”.
“This country belongs to everyone, it doesn’t belong to the two or three selected. It is not (Gautam) Adani’s,” he added.
He also said that all Congress leaders would “unitedly” fight the Karnataka Assembly election and that it would sweep the state in the May polls.
The party in the past has been beset by a leadership tussle between Siddaramaiah and state Congress chief D.K. Sivakumar, particularly over the chief minister’s post.
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Source: The Print
