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| Omar's 'new definition' of BPL: 'If one owns a car, he must get free ration' | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 17: Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah believes that people having television sets or latest mobile phones should be included in the Below Poverty Line (BPL).
"If you are having colour television you are out of the BPL, if you are having mobile phone you are out of the BPL. It's for this reason that I didn't implement that National Food Security Act in the State as many people would have been left out of the free ration scheme," he said at a party function at Shangus in Kashmir.
The former CM, who owns costly gadgets is trying to give a new definition of BPL. He wants to say if one owns a luxury car, he should be given free ration.
Omar is apparently suggesting that if the Act can be implemented in poor States like Chhattisgarh, which has the best track of public distribution system-read ration- it couldn't be implemented in J&K, which is though far richer than the Chhattisgarh and where there is massive inflow of funds.
The Act though not takes off the people from the ration category but is only aimed at streamlining the process for its judicious implementation and cut the pilfreage.
"Omar is playing a negative and anti-people role. He is suggesting to loot the public ex-chequer, which he had done as the CM. It's now becoming increasingly clear that it is his party which is instigating the people to come out against the Act especially in Kashmir," said a senior Minister.
The former CM is playing true to the colours of the NC which had always tried to derail any progressive act which is likely to bring more transparency in the State and will act as a unifying factor, which NC can never allow as it breeds on 'corruption' and 'alienation' of the Kashmir. |
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