Waqt ki Awaaz jk News NYAY scheme will empower poor by guaranteeing income of Rs 72,000 per annum: Shahnawaz Choudhary
Poonch, April 9: Shahnawaz Choudhary, Chairman election Publicity committee Congress J&K, AICC member and JKPCC General Secretary held a press conference followed by party meeting on Tuesday in Poonch to release and brief about the manifesto of Congress party. He said that NYAY scheme is aimed to empower the poor by guaranteeing minimum income of Rs 72,000 per annum if the Congress was voted to power. He said if party voted to power it will provide free education to students from ist up to class 12th class .
He asserted that the BJP Government has miserably failed in fulfilling the promises made with people during the 2014 Parliamentary elections.
Briefing media persons here, Shahnawaz Choudhary said the BJP during its regime has been failed to provide basic amenities to the people. He also said that priority of BJP was not to empower people by strengthening democratic institutions but those at the helm of the affairs wanted to accomplish their selfish designs by controlling such institutions through undemocratic means.
Terming the promises made by BJP Government as mere bluffs, Shahnawaz Choudhary said that voters were fed up with the sheer opportunism of it. BJP took the extreme positions on most of the emotional issues and exploited their respective constituencies to the hilt, with a false and deceptive promise, he added.
Appealing people from different walks of life particularly youth to become part of the party, Shahnawaz Choudhary said Congress offers a platform for all well meaning peoples to encourage them and play their role in party’s vision of political resolution and good governance.
Shahnawaz Choudhary strongly maintained that the NYAY scheme conceptualized by the Congress in its manifesto would be of "big help to empower the poor.
“The NYAY scheme is aimed at empowering the poor by guaranteeing minimum income of Rs 72,000 per annum if the Congress was voted to power in the coming Lok Sabha elections, he said, adding that the NYAY scheme like the MGNREA is intended to empower poor families and the amount of Rs 6,000 per month would be credited to the account of the woman member in the family. More than 5 crore families will be benefitted by this historic step, he added.
Shahnawaz Choudhary asserted that Congress its manifesto has committed to give women reservation upto 33 per cent in parliament, vidhan sabhas and also job reservation in central govt. Jobs. He added that congress will also 34 lakh employment before march 2020 in central govt., state govt. and seva Mitra in panchayats.
Shahnawaz Choudhary said that Congress by way of its pro-people policies is the only viable alternative for the people of the State. He said BJP failed to do anything good for the people of State except exploiting them for vested political interests.
Shahnawaz Choudhary said that Congress is the only alternative to the people of J&K, appealing them to vote and support in favour of Congress candidates and strengthen the Congress Party on all front.
The senior leaders who were present in the press conference including Distt. President Congress Poonch Sh. Abdul Ghani, VP JKPYC Ajaz choudhary, distt. President youth congress Idrees ganai, city president congress Sh. Mahinder singh, VP city Koushal sharma, distt. General secretary gulzar jatt and several other sarpanches.
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