Rs 8,500 to poor women from July, promises Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asserted that after June 5, the money will be transferred to the bank accounts of poor women if the I.N.D.I.A bloc wins the Lok Sabha elections.

“We are going to deposit lakhs of crores of rupees in the bank accounts of the poor in India. Under the Mahalakshmi scheme, a list will be prepared of the poor people in the country... From every poor family, a woman’s name will be selected... On 5th July, Rs 8,500 will be credited to the bank accounts of crores of poor women in the country... This will continue from July to August to September, October, November, December and so on ‘khata-khat, khatakhat, khata-khat andar’,” Rahul said addressing a rally in Varanasi.

He said that PM Modi was sent by his “parmatma (his God)” to help industrialists, Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani and not the poor.

“Everyone else is biological but Narendra Modi ji is not biological. He has been sent by his ‘parmatma’ to help Ambani and Adani but ‘parmatma’ has not sent him to help the farmers, labourers and poor people. If ‘parmatma’ had sent him then they (parmatma) would have asked him to help the poor and the farmers. Yeh kaise ‘parmatma’ hain? Yeh Narendra Modi ji wale ‘parmatma hain (What kind of God is this? This is PM Modi’s God),” Rahul Gandhi said.