The fact that the Gujarat government has determined Rs 10.8 a day for rural areas as the cut-off for the poverty line in the state has raked up a controversy.
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government for its “mockery” of poverty, the Congress reminded the Opposition party of how it had trashed the Planning Commission's poverty line cut-offs of Rs 32 and Rs 28 a day in urban and rural areas, respectively, as a “joke”.