Chhattisgarh: Will hike health benefits for poor, says Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi was addressing an rally at Rajnandgaon. File pic

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday promised free treatment facility up to Rs 10 lakh to the poor people under an existing health assistance scheme in Chhattisgarh if his party retains power in the state.

Addressing an election rally at the Rajnandgaon district headquarters in the poll-bound state, Gandhi also promised that agricultural landless labourers (in rural areas) will be given R10,000 per year in place of the existing Rs 7,000.

Caste census will be conducted in the country if the Congress is voted to power at the Centre, Gandhi said. He said the Congress government is the government of the poor, labourers, farmers, backward classes, tribals and Dalits and it listens to the voice of their hearts.

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