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At PM's Mega Karnataka Campaign Speech, Message To End "Revdi Culture"
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For Karnataka polls, Congress has announced 'guarantees' that include 200 units of free power to all households, 10 kg of rice free to every member of BPL household (Anna Bhagya), ₹ 2,000 monthly assistance to woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi), and ₹ 3,000 every month for graduate youth and ₹ 1,500 for diploma holders (both in the age group of 18-25) for two years, on coming to power.
The Prime Minister said states are getting immersed in debt because of freebies, and emphasised that the country and the governments cannot be run like this.
https://www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/at-pm-narendra-modis-mega-campaign-speech-in-karnataka-message-to-end-revdi-culture-3984035#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll
UBI on the other hand, by literal definition, does not discriminate between citizens rich or poor. It's not an election gimmick and is given in advanced nations based on a systematic assessment of the state's financial ability. Why don't you read up on some basic micro and macro-economics if you want to have opinions on this? It's not that hard to understand.
And for the record, since the Mod loves to attach political and ideological labels on everyone, I'm neither right nor left-wing. But Modi is definitely correct on this even though it's hypocritical to some degree since BJP is not much better. But still, I would rather have them than INC just for the fact that they are not as disingenuous about their politics as the Italian and her gang.
Even the left is disagreeing with it, after Biden did something similar in his covid plan, that proved highly disastrous (https://sp2.upenn.edu/press/bidens-stimulus-plan-contains-an-experiment-in-universal-basic-income/).