NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main opposition Congress party will give 72,000 rupees ($1,045/£792) a year to the country's poorest families if it is voted back to power, its president said on Monday.
Describing it as a "final assault on poverty", Congress President Rahul Gandhi told reporters in New Delhi that the scheme would benefit 250 million people.
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