the 'prince' and his gaffe

[VoteLeft 2009 Team]

The 'prince' (yuvraj) of Congress recently bluffed away at an election meet in Purulia, West Bengal and claimed that Purulia was the poorest district of India. What the 'prince' didn't know is that his own kingdom...err constituency is faring far worse than Purulia

What the attached figures show should hopefully make the 'prince' look at his own constituency a bit more and stop trying to be just a 'star campaigner' !

	Amethi	Purulia
People below poverty line	54%	31%
Urban population	7%	11%
Families with electricity	14%	29%
Families with telephone	6%	6%
Spending capacity per person (Rs)	385	461
Employed people	34%	45%
Employed Women	24%	37%
Literacy	62%	63%
Children with inoculation(immunity)	16%	84%
Infant Mortality rate (per 1000 births)	83	46
Mortality rate below 5 years (per 1000)	160	89

Bluffbazi Jai Ho!