New Delhi: Hitting out at Home Minister
P Chidambaram, CPI(M) on Sunday asked him to read reports of his
own government carefully before criticising the Left parties
for misquoting the same.
"The Home Minister would do well to study the reports of
his own government more carefully in order to better his
understanding of the prevailing socio-economic conditions of
people in the country," a CPI(M) statement said.
Chidambaram, at a conference here yesterday, had said
that the Left parties have been propagating a myth on poverty
in the country and they would meet their Waterloo in the next
12 months.
"The Home Minister has termed the fact of 77 per cent of
our population living below Rs 20 per day as a `myth`
propagated by the Left.
"He has done so by misquoting the Left as saying that 77
per cent of the population has a per capita income of Rs 20
per day. What the Left has been citing is the figure provided
by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised
Sector, which was set up by the UPA government in 2004," the
statement said.
The report on Conditions of Work and Livelihoods in the
Unorganised Sector submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
by the NCEUS in August 2007, states this in the first page of
its first chapter, the CPI(M) statement said, adding, the
report was available in the public domain.
PTI
