Free food will come at a very steep cost

In 1971, the Congress, or rather the faction of the party led by Indira Gandhi, launched the ‘garibi hatao’ slogan to win the election and beat its rivals in the game of hoodwinking the people. Twenty years after that — during most of which period the Congress was in power except for a tiny interval —data showed that 51 per cent of the people were still below the poverty line, with an income of $1.25 per capita per day.

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