As expected India's politicians are disturbed over the latest Supreme Court directions for distribution of food grain to the poor. A couple of days ago the Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar said that the grain cannot be given free because the government pays a heavy price to procure the food grain. In a country ridden with hunger and acute malnutrition, the wastage of food grain by allowing it to rot in the open but not distributing it to the hungry is worse than the genocide in Gujarat. Has the government recovered their costs of the tonnes of food grain which has rotted and the remaining which is unfit for human consumption? Politicians appear more concerned about protecting their power turf from the encroachment by the juidiciary.
The protests by political parties against the price rise is all hypocritical. The politicians seem to enjoy the starvation of the poor and the criminal wastage of food that takes place in this country. It is actually the judiciary that is preventing a full blown civil war in this country by giving some sort of hope to the oppressed and exploited that there still exists scope for getting justice through democratic avenues. What do our heartless politicians want, angry mobs to descend on FCI godowns and snatch the food grain?
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