Congress attacks govt on issue of income inequality

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said an analysis of the publicly available data on income tax returns for the period 2013-14 to 2021-22 confirms one of the essential themes of the Bharat Jodo Yatra — that of increasing income inequality. “The widening gap between the ultra-rich and the middle class under the Modi government is more and more apparent,” he said in a post on X. The Congress has been alleging that income disparity between the rich and the poor has been growing in the last few years.