Political parties shun issues related to the poor: Activists

Civil society activists fighting against reduction in food entitlements to the below poverty line (BPL) families from 35 kg to 25 kg slammed the indifferent attitude of the major political parties in the state. Reacting on the absence of representatives from ruling Congress party and both the opposition groups the BJP and the CPI (M), advocate Prem Krishan Sharma, president of Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said that the poor of the state had to fight their battle without any…