Live! Claim on poverty decline a diversionary tactic by UPA: BJP

July 28, 2013 15:05

The UPA government is trying to divert people's attention away from its failures by claiming that poverty levels had come down, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu has alleged.

"The Planning Commission statement that poverty (levels) have been reduced during the UPA regime from 37.2 to 21.9 per cent is a ploy by the ruling party to divert people's attention away from the massive failures, particularly on the economic and social front," Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad on Sunday. "All reports, including World Bank studies, reveal that India is far behind in human development indices vis--vis Bangladesh, even sometimes Nepal, Sri Lanka and China," Naidu said.

"If that is the case, how can the government claim that poverty levels have come down and the people live on Rs 33 per day?" he asked.

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