Rahul Gandhi dangles Rs 3.6 lakh crore carrot, BJP calls his bluff
(WorldNews India)

Rahul Gandhi proceeded to give a fresh coat of paint to the Congress's decades-old 'Gareebi Hatao' slogan less than three weeks before the general election by announcing a guaranteed monthly income of Rs 12,000 for five crore impoverished families in the country. Hours later, what the Congress president dubbed a 'fiscal assault on poverty', the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party dismissed as a "bluff". Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tore into the Grand Old Party, writing in his blog: "If the Congress party's announcement is tested on simple arithmetic, Rs 72,000 for five crore families works out to be Rs 3.6 lakh crore, which is less than two-thirds of what...