Basic income for poor: Rahul Gandhi's masterstroke or an election jumla?

If voted back to power in the general elections 2019, Congress president Rahul Gandhi promised that his party would implement minimum basic income for the poor a spinoff of the global concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI).

Gandhi said the dream of building a new India will only be possible by eliminating poverty. A minimum income guarantee for every poor person is our vision and promise, he said.