Congress cycle rally to promote Rs 72,000 minimum income promise

NEW DELHI:

Delhi Congress

on Sunday started a 13-day cycle rally to popularise Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income promise of Rs 72,000 per annum to the country’s poor and to “expose the failure and falsehood” of the

BJP government

at the Centre and

AAP

government in the capital.

The “haath ke saath cycle yatra”, led by Delhi Congress working president Devender Yadav, started from Samaypur Badli in northwest Delhi. It will cover 27 assembly segments in four parliamentary constituencies.

Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said the minimum income guarantee scheme (NYAY) would benefit about five crore families (20% poorest people).

Lashing out at the Centre, Surjewala said PM Narendra Modi gave false hopes to the people during the 2014 parliamentary elections to get their votes, but didn’t fulfil any promises in the last five years. He added that the country’s economy has been “ruined by demonetisation, GST and anti-farmer policies” of the government.

The

cycle yatra

will make overnight halts at slums and resettlement colonies and address the issues of that area. Ten focus groups will also address the rally.

Meanwhile, another Delhi Congress working president, Rajesh Lilothia, filed police complaints against Chandni Chowk MP Harsh Vardhan, New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi and North West Delhi MP Udit Raj. “The BJP MPs had promised to adopt villages and make them model villages, but didn’t do anything,” he said.