Target to upgrade 70 crore people to middle class: Rahul

January 30, 2014 19:03

Reaching out to the strata between BPL and middle class, Rahul Gandhi today said the Congress will focus on giving these 70 crore people a better life and basic social security, as he sought direct feedback from labourers and street vendors for the Lok Sabha poll manifesto.

"The meaning of policy should be that 70 crore people of the country have a concrete base support so that they are assured that whatever be the circumstances, their condition will not plummet beyond that base. The target in the next five-ten years should be that we upgrade these 70 crore people to middle class. These are the people who run the country," Gandhi said.

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