Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government of widening economic inequality in India.
Kharge claimed that the gap has now reached a point where the “common man continues to sink in its abyss”.
The Congress chief made the remarks in reference to a recent report by the non-profit Oxfam, which said that the richest 1% of India’s population owned more than 40.5% of the country’s total wealth in 2021, while the bottom 50% of the population only accounted for around 3% of it.
भाजपा ने आर्थिक असमानता की खाई को इतना गहरा कर दिया है कि देश का आम इंसान उसमें धँसता जा रहा है।
भारत में सबसे अमीर 1% के पास देश की कुल संपत्ति का 40% से ज़्यादा हिस्सा है,
जबकि आधी आबादी के पास 3% ही हिस्सा बचा है!#BharatJodoYatra,आर्थिक असमानता की खाई को भरने का आंदोलन है।
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) January 17, 2023
In its report titled “Survival of the Richest: The India Supplement”, Oxfam said that the combined wealth of India’s 100 richest persons reached Rs 54.12 lakh crore in 2022.
The total number of billionaires also increased in India from 102 in 2020 to 142 in 2021 and 166 in 2022. In a stark contrast 22.89 crore persons live in poverty in India – the highest in the world,…
