New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said the Left parties will "meet their Waterloo" in the next assembly elections and accused them of spreading myths about poverty in the country.
Replying to a question, he said the Left parties have been propagating the myth that 77 per cent of people of the country have income of only Rs 20 daily.
"That is a myth that is being spread in the last three four years by the Left parties in West Bengal. But, they will meet their Waterloo in the next 12 months," Chidambaram said
referring to the forthcoming assembly elections in that state.
Earlier addressing the national convention on `Law, Justice and the Common Man`, Chidambaram came down heavily on khap panchayats for taking law in their own hands.
"What are these panchayats? Who gave them the powers? Who gave them the right to lay down the law," he asked dubbing the village councils that approve honour killings as social evil and an affront to human dignity.
PTI
