Food security: Sonia calls meeting of Cong CMs, PCC chiefs

July 09, 2013 14:06

With the Congress projecting the food security bill as a game changer, Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of its Chief Ministers and PCC chiefs on July 13 to discuss the issue.

The meeting called days after the government rushed through an ordinance on the key measure is an indication that the party is keen to pull out all the stops in propagating the food security scheme that will provide right to cheap food grains to 82 crore people.

This will be the first major gathering of Congress leaders after the party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur in January this year.

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