Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Rahul Gandhi promises to end Agniveer scheme, says 'India does not need two types of martyrs'

Rahul Gandhi said that India does not request 2 types of martyrs.

"As soon arsenic the INDIA confederation authorities comes, we volition extremity the Agniveer scheme. India does not request 2 types of martyrs. Everyone should get a pension," quality bureau ANI quoted Gandhi arsenic saying.

Apart from this, helium besides promised that the INDI confederation authorities would instrumentality a minimum taxation and waive disconnected farmers' debts.

"We volition alteration GST. There volition beryllium 1 tax, the minimum tax. We volition treble the wage of Asha and Anganwadi workers," helium said.

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Adding more, helium promised successful Bhagalpur that Congress is going to supply a guaranteed minimum enactment terms to the farmers of India.

"We are giving 2 guarantees to the farmers. The Congress enactment is going to waive disconnected the farmers' debts, and secondly, we are going to supply a guaranteed minimum enactment terms to the farmers of India," helium said.

Among others, the Congress person adjacent promised that his authorities would supply each graduates and diploma holders successful India with the close to an apprenticeship.

Each idiosyncratic volition person an apprenticeship successful the public, private, and authorities sectors for 1 twelvemonth with a salary, nether the close to apprenticeship, helium said, adding, that they volition unafraid a imperishable occupation successful lawsuit they execute well.

"All the graduates and diploma holders of India, we are going to springiness them a right, the close to apprenticeship. The close to apprenticeship means that our adjacent authorities is going to springiness each younker of India the close to a archetypal job. Everyone volition get an apprenticeship for 1 twelvemonth with salary. They volition person training, and if they execute good successful the archetypal year, they volition get a imperishable job. These apprenticeship jobs volition beryllium disposable successful nationalist units, successful the backstage sector, and successful the authorities sector," helium said.

Meanwhile, hitting retired astatine the ruling BJP, Gandhi claimed the enactment would not triumph much than 150 seats. "These BJP radical person kept saying that they volition unafraid this galore oregon that galore seats, fto maine marque it clear, they (BJP) won't get much than 150 seats. Not adjacent a azygous spot much than 150," Gandhi said.

The archetypal signifier of Lok Sabha elections 2024's voting concluded connected 19 April for 103 parliamentary constituencies dispersed implicit 21 states and Union Territories.

The 2nd signifier volition beryllium held connected 26 April and the remaining phases volition beryllium 7 May, 13 May, 20 May, 25 May and 1 June respectively. The counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected 4 June.

With bureau inputs. 

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Published: 20 Apr 2024, 02:16 PM IST