Team News Riveting
Raipur, February 3
Congress leader and Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi said the limit of the financial aid of Chhattisgarh government’s ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhumihin Krishi Majdur Nyay Yojana (RGGBKMNY) was not adequate and had to be hiked.
“Bhupesh Ji, 6000 kam hai; ise aur badaiye (Bhupesh Ji, 6000 is less; make it more),” Rahul Gandhi told Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel while launching the scheme that his party-led government launched for the landless agricultural labourers. Under the scheme, Chhattisgarh government would provide financial assistance of Rs 6,000 per year to landless families who carry out farming activities.
The former Congress President lashed out at the BJP-led government at the centre and said in the last 70 years, it was not the Congress but the workers, farmers and small traders who built the country. Now, they have been side-lined and as a few people now hold the country’s economy, he said, adding that on one side its 100 persons holding the entire money while on the other hand it is 40 per cent people striving for food and job. “We don’t want Hindustan where 40 per cent are living in deprivation; we don’t allow such Hindustan to come up,” Rahul Gandhi fumed.
He said the Congress government in Chhattisgarh had fulfilled what it had promised. “We are paying Rs 2500 to farmers and now the farm labourers will be benefitted,” he said.
Rahul Gandhi praised the efforts of Chhattisgarh government to succour small traders by promoting and providing marketing platform to the products produced in the districts.
During his day-long visit, Rahul Gandhi laid the foundation stone for setting up Chhattisgarh Amar Jawan Jyoti to come up at 4th battalion in Mana and Sewa Gram.
