Rahul’s hand clear in poverty line firefight

The Congress may be coy about admitting it, but the party's firefighting over the damage done by the Planning Commission's poverty line clearly has the stamp of Rahul Gandhi. The Gandhi scion’s confidants, including rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, were at the forefront as the government sought to explain away the commission’s affidavit to the Supreme Court that an urban inhabitant spending more than R32 a day was above the poverty line.

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