They would have been in jail if we had 20 more seats, Kharge attacks govt

ANANTNAG: Attacking BJP and Modi govt, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said those people would have been in jail if INDIA bloc formed a govt.

“They (BJP) used to say ‘400 paar’; where are your 400 seats? They stopped at 240. If we had 20 more seats, then all these people would have been in jail,” he told a rally in Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag, where he announced five guarantees if Congress-National Conference alliance forms a govt in the UT.

Kharge’s five guarantees are: Rs 500,000 interest-free loans for women entrepreneurs, Rs 3,000 a month for women heads of families, Rs 25 lakh health insurance for each household, 11 kg of PDS grains per person, and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.

He accused govt of not bringing any manufacturing units in the region. “1 lakh govt posts are vacant. These people (BJP) want to keep you poor. If we come to power, we will fill those empty posts. We will reopen over 4,400 govt schools closed in the past several years,” Kharge said.

Congress chief promised to strive for the restoration of J&K’s statehood and its bi-cameral legislature. “They (BJP) keep asking how we will do it? When people are with us, we will do it as it is people's power,” he said.

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