NYAY Will Be "Tested" In Kerala If Congress Voted To Power: Rahul Gandhi

Flanked by Oommen Chandy and AICC general secretary KC Venugopal on a roofless campaign vehicle, Rahul Gandhi said he was confident of the success of the NYAY scheme.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been pushing for Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) -- a proposed minimum income guarantee scheme, on Tuesday, promised people in poll-bound Kerala that the scheme will be "tested" in the southern state if the party-led UDF is voted to power. "I have a selfish reason to test it," Rahul Gandhi said, addressing an election corner meeting organised at Manarcad in Puthuppally Assembly constituency represented by the former chief minister and senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy for the last 50 years. Flanked by Oommen Chandy and AICC general secretary KC Venugopal on a roofless campaign vehicle, Rahul Gandhi said he was confident of the success of the NYAY scheme. A sum of Rs 72,000 a year will go straight into a beneficiaries bank account."And we know what is going to happen next. We are testing a new idea in Kerala," Rahul Gandhi told party workers who gathered in large numbers around the campaign vehicle to listen to his speech.