New Delhi: After Raj Babbar and Rasheed Masood, now union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah on Friday has said that one can have full meal for Re.1.
“One can eat for Re. 1, if desired. It depends on the common man how much they can afford and they have to manage in that only,” Abdullah said on the ongoing debate on poverty.
Congress leader Rasheed Masood on Thursday claimed that “one can eat well” for Rs.5 in the national capital, a day after Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar said that one can have a full meal for Rs.12 in Mumbai.
“You can eat well for Rs.5 in the Jama Masjid area of Delhi,” Masood, a Rajya Sabha member from the Congress, said in New Delhi.
The comment has opened floodgates of criticism with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying the government is just trying to perpetuate poverty.
The Planning Commission on Tuesday said poverty ratio in the country had declined to 21.9 percent in 2011-12 from 37.2 percent in 2004-05 on account of increase in per capita consumption.
