Lucknow: Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav launched an attack on BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. He cited Niti Aayog’s Multidimensional Poverty Index and said that it is ranked among the worst states.
“In the first multidimensional poverty index (MPI) of NITI Aayog, under the BJP rule, UP is among the three poorest states in the country; UP ranks third in terms of malnutrition rate and under the child and adolescent mortality rate category, UP has secured the worst position in the entire country. These are the badges of failure of the BJP government,” Akhilesh Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.
He has posted a newspaper clipping that levelled that Uttar Pradesh is among the poorest state in the country. Akhilesh Yadav was referring to the Niti Aayog’s MPI ranking report. As per the report Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India.
As per the index, 51.91 per cent population of Bihar is poor, followed by 42.16 per cent in Jharkhand, 37.79 per cent in Uttar Pradesh.
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