{"id":1526,"date":"2019-03-26T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzittoday.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2019-03-26T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:01:41","slug":"arun-jaitley-slammed-rahul-gandhis-promise-as-bluff-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/arun-jaitley-slammed-rahul-gandhis-promise-as-bluff-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Jaitley Slammed Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s Promise As &#8220;Bluff Statement&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>New Delhi<\/strong> | <em>On Monday, March 25, BJP leader <\/em><strong><em>Arun Jaitley<\/em><\/strong><em> condemn Congress president <\/em><strong><em>Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s promise <\/em><\/strong><em>of minimum income giving Rs 72,000 per year to the poor deprived families as a <\/em><strong><em>&#8220;bluff declaration&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Minister conveyed that the Congress has a record of bypassing the poor and misguiding the country in the name of abolishing poverty as it does not provide them any resources. He also asserted that the Modi government was already giving one-and-a-half times more money to them. He wrote, \u201cIn 1971, \u2018<strong>Garibi Hatao<\/strong>\u2019 slogan was given by Indira ji. For two-thirds of the last 48 years her party has been in power. Yet, they left behind a legacy of poverty&#8221;, and the <strong>farmers are still waiting! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nehruvian model stagnated growth. Indira Gandhi gave legendary slogan of \u2018Garibi Hatao\u2019 in 1971 &amp; just redistributed poverty. The legacy of poverty in India reflects inefficient governance &amp; economic model of the Congress Party.<\/p>&mdash; Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arunjaitley\/status\/1110171608461787138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;The simple arithmetic is if multiple bank transfers to the five crore poor families, the existing payment to which is mostly being done. The above averages Rs 1,06,800 annually as against Rs 72,000 which is the Congress now seeks to promise through the&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/m.timesofindia.com\/topic\/DBT\"><\/a>DBTmechanism,&#8221; Jaitley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The same Congress, which today announced the minimum income guarantee scheme and was pitting forward to carry out their schemes through Direct Benefit Transfers, was the same party that clashed Aadhaar scheme through which DBT has been made possible in Parliament as well as in courts. Congress is also accussed of \u201crepackaging\u201d the schemes that were already being run by the Modi government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The latest announcement of the Congress Party if tested on simple arithmetic then \u20b972,000 is less than 2\/3rd of the existing DBT under Modi government, which averages \u20b91.068 lakh annually. So what is being claimed by the Congress Party &#8211; A bluff announcement.<\/p>&mdash; Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arunjaitley\/status\/1110172294679285760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress Party in <strong>Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Karnataka<\/strong> promised a loan waiver, which too was a &#8220;bluff &#8221; as in most places the promises have remained unsatisfied. Jaitley also hit out at senior Congress leader and former finance minister <strong>P.Chidambaram<\/strong>, who in a series of tweets had lauded the \u2018<strong>Nyay<\/strong>\u2019 scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the announcement of minimum income guarantee announced by Rahul Gandhi today, was \u201can admission of the fact that neither Indira ji nor her son and certainly not the UPA Government controlled by her descendants, was able to remove poverty.\u201d Lets examine is this scheme of Rahul Gandhi is just for promoting Congress for upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2019 or this time the party would seriously give some benefits to the people?<br><\/p>\n    \t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi | On Monday, March 25, BJP leader Arun Jaitley condemn Congress president Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s promise of minimum income giving Rs 72,000 per year to the poor deprived families as a &#8220;bluff declaration&#8221;. 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