06 May,2018 10:06 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "copy" and implement centrally the Congress-led Karnataka governments sub-plan for the welfare of the Dalits and Adivasis.
He said that since the Prime Minister was good at "repackaging" the Congress-led UPA government's schemes, he could try his hand at this one too.
"The Karnataka government's revolutionary SC/ST sub-plan allocates 24 percent of all resources to Dalits and Adivasis as per their percentage of the population.
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"Since Prime Minister Modi is skilled at repackaging and claiming credit for Congress schemes, this is a good one for him to copy centrally," he said in a series of tweets.
Both Modi and Gandhi have been busy in the election campaign in Karnataka that is due to vote on May 12, which the Bharatiya Janata Party making a strong bid to unseat the Congress.
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Edited by mid-day online desk, with inputs from PTI
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