Lok Sabha polls: BJP mulls scheme to counter Rahul Gandhi's NYAY

There are concerns within the BJP that NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana), as the Congress has termed its income guarantee scheme, has caught imagination of the poor, particularly the landless, in rural areas

The BJP is thinking of mooting a couple of schemes in its 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto to counter the Congress’s electoral promise of minimum income guarantee of Rs 72,000 a year to the poorest 20 per cent of the country.
 
There are concerns within the BJP that NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana), as the Congress has termed its income guarantee scheme, has caught the imagination of the poor, particularly the landless, in rural areas. The Congress has said the scheme, if it were to come to power, would cover urban poor as well.
 
The Narendra Modi government had in