Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on August 31 said the party shall keep its promise of providing five lakh jobs to youths in Himachal Pradesh as also ₹1,500 per month to women and restore the pension scheme in the hill State if voted to power.
Mr. Gandhi, who is abroad along with her mother, took to social media to say that the Congress will take a pledge to resolve the problems of the people of Himachal Pradesh.
Assembly elections in the hill State are slated later this year and the Congress is gearing up to wrest power from the BJP. The party has brought out a "Sankalp patra" listing out its poll promises ahead of elections.