Kottayam/Kochi: Congress leader Shri Rahul Gandhi, who has been pushing for NyuntamAay Yojana (NYAY) -- a proposed minimum income guarantee scheme -- on 23 March,2021, promised people of poll-bound Kerala that the scheme will be “tested” in the southern state if the party-led UDF is voted to power.

“I have a selfish reason to test it,” he said at an election meeting organised at Manarcad in Puthuppally Assembly constituency represented by former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader OommenChandy.

Earlier, addressing a meeting at Paruthumpara near here, Shri Rahul Gandhi said, “The first thing we are going to do when we form the government is to start NYAY yojana.”

“We are not going to ask you where you come from, how old you are, whether you believe in one religion or another religion. If you are from Kerala and you need support, we will give it to you. This is the idea of NYAY,” he said.