Lok Sabha members, cutting across party lines, on Wednesday lambasted Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for the “cut-off poverty line” estimate released by the Commission and sought his removal as well as its disbandment “for deceiving the country and cheating people”.
“This is a cruel joke on the poor,” the members asserted and demanded a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Speaker Meira Kumar too expressed her concern on the plight of poor in the country. “We have to be with them,” she said.
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