Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge today launched the party's 'Ghar Ghar Guarantee' campaign, an outreach progamme that aims at reaching the doorsteps of eight crore families over the next few weeks with a message about what the party would do for the people if it comes to power.
Kharge launched the campaign in North East Delhi parliamentary constituency in the national capital by distributing the Congress Guarantee card, which lists out five Nyay and 25 guarantees. The pledges are listed on the card under five heads 'Yuva Nyay', 'Nari Nyay', 'Kisan Nyay', 'Shramik Nyay' and 'Hissedari Nyay'.
Among the guarantees is guaranteed apprenticeship with stipend of Rs 1 lakh per annum for every educated youth, Rs 1 lakh every year to the woman head of every poor family, loan waiver and legal guarantee of MSP in accordance with the Swaminathan formula for farmers, Rs 400 minimum wage which would apply to MNREGA, too, and caste census.
Congress workers over the next few weeks will reach out to eight crore families and distribute the guarantee cards. The cards have been printed in 14 different languages.
The guarantees were announced by Kharge and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi during the recently concluded Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
At the launch of the campaign in Usmanpur area of North East Delhi, which was, at one time, the Congress's stronghold and which predominantly comprises resettlement colonies, Kharge said: “We are distributing this guarantee card to take our Panch Nyay Pachees Guarantee to the people. All Congress leaders and workers will tell the people about what our alliance government will do when it comes to power.”
The guarantee card represents the Congress's main election plank for the coming Lok Sabha polls. It seeks to set a narrative that the people are in great distress and facing injustice in various ways, and how the Congress and the INDIA bloc would seek to alleviate their problems. It also runs counter to the BJP's 'Modi ki Guarantee' campaign.
“Prime Minister Modi talks about Modi ki Guarantee, but his guarantees never reach the people, they are never fulfilled,” Kharge said.
