Claiming that five crore people got jobs from MNREGA and 80 crore will benefit from Right to Food, he said when he raised the issue of food security in Parliament, the BJP leaders said money was being wasted.
Reaching out to farmers, Gandhi said, “When your land is taken away and something is snatched from you, then there is no waste. But it is wastage for them when you are given something, when the poor is given something.”
Reiterating his resolve for giving opportunities to 70 crore people falling in a category between the BPL and middle class, he said if the country has to be changed the status of the poor has to be changed.
”We have the poor to the middle class level. We have lifted 15 crore people above the poverty line. Now a new class has emerged with the efforts of the UPA government.
These 70 crore people, who are above BPL line and below the middle class category have to be brought above into the middle class group. Our target is to convert them into middle class,” he said.
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