In its soon-to-be released manifesto for Elections 2014, the Congress has attempted to work in promises that will directly address the section that is transitioning from BPL (below the poverty line) status to the middle class, a group that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi highlighted in his speech at the AICC session on January 17, calling for focussing on the needs of this group of 70 crore people.
So, for instance, the draft manifesto says the Indira Awaas Yojana (housing for rural poor) and the Rajiv Gandhi Awaas Yojana (housing for urban poor) will both be universalised, with the proviso that they will operate on a policy of exclusion with a set of criteria to identify those who will not be allowed to access the two programmes.
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