‘UP poor to give `27 to Rahul Gandhi for meal’
30 July 2013 5:02 AM IST
Mocking at the Planning Commission’s poverty figures, people of Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region would give Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Rs.27 instead of a ‘chatni-roti’ meal if he comes here, NGO workers and villagers said here on Sunday.
Gandhi visited Bundelkhand’s Banda district in September 2009 and stayed overnight at the home of Bhagwat Prajapati in Nehri village who died due to poverty. He sympathised with Prajapati’s family and ate ‘chatni-roti’ with them.
But village residents now said Gandhi would not be offered the poor man's food any more. Prajapati’s nephew Lala Prajapati said he did not expect Gandhi to visit their house again, but if he did then ‘I am going to give him Rs.27 so that he could fight hunger’. According to the Planning Commission, people whose daily consumption of goods and services exceed Rs.27.20 in villages and Rs.33.33 in cities are not poor.
Gandhi visited Bundelkhand’s Banda district in September 2009 and stayed overnight at the home of Bhagwat Prajapati in Nehri village who died due to poverty. He sympathised with Prajapati’s family and ate ‘chatni-roti’ with them.
But village residents now said Gandhi would not be offered the poor man's food any more. Prajapati’s nephew Lala Prajapati said he did not expect Gandhi to visit their house again, but if he did then ‘I am going to give him Rs.27 so that he could fight hunger’. According to the Planning Commission, people whose daily consumption of goods and services exceed Rs.27.20 in villages and Rs.33.33 in cities are not poor.
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