Live on this! BJP sends Rs.32 to PM, Sonia
Tuesday September 27, 2011 08:29:13 PM,
IANS
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Bhopal: Mocking the
government's stand on poverty, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Madhya
Pradesh unit has sent demand drafts of Rs.32 each to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi,
asking them to show how to live for a day on the sum.
Demand drafts of Rs. 26 each were sent to Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh
Ahluwalia with the same request, state unit chief Prabhat Jha said
Tuesday.
The BJP's action came in protest against the Planning Commission's
benchmark of poverty, fixing the cut-off at expenditures of Rs.32
for urban and Rs.26 for the rural areas in the country in an
affidavit presented before the Supreme Court.
According to the Planning Commission's findings, those spending
more than Rs 32 in urban areas and Rs 26 in rural areas would not
come under the definition of below poverty line (BPL) cases.
Terming it as a "cruel joke of the poor", Jha said it was a
conspiracy on the part of the central government to gradually
deprive the poor people from the benefits of many welfare schemes.
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