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Union Minister Pralhad Joshi has reacted sharply to comments from Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah. The Minister said, “Siddaramaiah and Congress party have tried to call PM Modi ‘Neech’…Since PM Modi comes from a poor background, the Congress party is jealous of the chair of PM Modi. They think this belongs to the Gandhi family… The whole country is facing a drought situation. We have fewer stocks of rice. That’s why we have banned the export of rice. The price of rice is increasing…Many BJP-governed states are also demanding rice…But we do not have it right now…The ‘Neech’ word used by the Congress is an example of their ‘Ghamand’.”
This was in response to the Siddaramaiah saying in a public speech, “Prior to the election, I had said that I would give the people of the state 5kgs over and above what you’re getting, as the previous govt had reduced free rice to just 5kgs. We wrote to the Food Corporation of India to purchase rice from them. They assured us that they were ready to provide the rice. But the Centre denied us to provide rice. Is the BJP pro-poor? No, they are not. We did not ask for rice for free. We were ready to pay for it. We were ready to pay Rs 36/kg for rice. All of you must decide how ‘neech’ (despicable) they are. They are anti-poor. They are inhumane…”.
