NEW DELHI -- The "final assault" on poverty has begun, declared Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition party the Indian National Congress.
Gandhi this week promised to hand out a total of 3.6 trillion rupees ($52 billion) annually to tens of millions of the vast nation's poorest people, in a bold bid to claw back ground on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of general elections in the world's biggest democracy.
