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Street vendors need assistance package, not loans: Priyanka Gandhi

Last Updated : 27 Oct 2020 04:25:59 PM IST

Priyanka Gandhi

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said that street vendors and small traders need a special assistance package and not loans.

Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction with vendors in UP, the Congress leader said that during the lockdown street vendors and small shopkeepers were hit hard.

"It became difficult for them to run their homes, their livelihoods were ruined," Priyanka tweeted.

She said, "The street vendors, shopkeepers, small traders today need a special assistance package, not loans."

आज पीएम साहब यूपी के कुछ रेहड़ी-पटरी दुकानदारों से बात करेंगे।

पूरे लॉकडॉउन में रेहड़ी-पटरी वालों, छोटे दुकानदारों पर भयंकर मार पड़ी। घर चलाना मुश्किल हो गया, रोजी-रोटी उजड़ गई।

रेहड़ी-पटरी वालों, दुकानदारों, छोटे व्यापारियों को आज लोन नहीं एक स्पेशल सहायता पैकेज की जरूरत है।
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 27, 2020

The Prime Minister's Street Vendor's Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme was launched on June 1 to help street vendors resume their livelihood activities after they were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.