Congress bid to ‘cheat’ poor again: Arun Jaitley

New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday slammed Rahul Gandhi’s promise of giving Rs 72,000 per year to the poorest families as a “bluff announcement” and yet another Congress bid to “cheat” the poor, and asserted the Modi government was already giving one-and-a-half times more money to them.

“The government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been giving away Rs 5.34 lakh crore to the poor families. What sort of favour will they (Congress) do to the poor by giving them Rs 3.6 lakh crore? We are already giving them one-and-a-half times more,” he said, noting that the 20 per cent poorest families are already getting Rs 1.06 lakh each under various government schemes against Rs 72,000 promised by the Congress.