Food Bill: An Indirect Ticket To the Ruling Party for a Third Term?

They also claimed that this bill will only fill the pockets of those corrupt and inefficient state-owned cheap food ration shopkeepers.

According to analysts this ordinance will further slow down the economy of the country, which is also Asia’s third-largest economy.

According to U.N. figures, though India is one of the world’s largest food producers, experiencing years of rapid economic growth, it is still home to one-fourth of the world’s hungry poor people.

Keeping this into account, the union government used this food bill as a key method to entice people to vote for them in order to return as the ruling party once again in the upcoming 2014 election.

Subhash Agrawal political analyst of the India Focus think tank said, “Congress clearly thinks that it can draw political advantage and that is why they are doing it."

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