Rice for Rs 3 per Kg and Wheat for Rs 2 per Kg

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Taking a cue from the Raman Singh government's Rs 3 per kg rice scheme in Chhattisgarh, the BJP-led government in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday released its poll manifesto promising wheat at Rs 2 per kg to families living below poverty line and salt at 25 paise per kg to people under Scheduled Tribes category.
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Its election time and there is no shortage of promises from the politicians from both the ruling party and the opposition. Rs 3 per kg for rice and Rs 2 per kg for wheat is great. But what these politicians will not tell the electorate is that these prices are subsidized. And somebody has to pay the difference between the market value and the subsidized price. And that somebody is the poor taxpayer.

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