NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi is using Rs 10.80 a day as the limit to identify the poor for providing the subsidy beneficiaries.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram rejected the BPL by Gujarat government saying, “If BJP can reject Rs 32 figure, how can they claim Rs 11 figure.”
Latching on to the BPL criteria of people earning below Rs 10.80 daily found on a Gujarat government website, Congress lashed out at BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, asking him to apologise to the poor for “insulting” and making a “mockery” of them.
AICC Communication Department Chairman Ajay Maken also reminded Modi and his party that BJP had made a big issue of Planning Commission’s Below Poverty Line (BPL) figure of Rs 32 and Rs 28 a day in urban and rural areas and had described it as a “joke”.
He asked if pegging earning below Rs 32 per day is a joke then how can the Modi government fixing the BPL limit to Rs 10.80 be described.
He also released a copy of the website page of Gujarat government regarding the BPL critieria for consideration of families to be covered under the Antodaya Yojana in the state, which said that under the scheme those families, whose members’ average monthly income is Rs 324 in rural areas and up to Rs 501 in urban areas in a month are covered.
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