Life has become a joke for poor and hungry people in the country as the overnment too is not letting any stone unturned in making the life of the poor a complete joke.

It is strange that government is planning to provide cheaper and easy access to LPG gas supply to those, who can not afford two meals. What a paradox! It is to give cooking gas to the have-nots while the poor don’t have any food grains to cook.

In the name of environmental issues, government is boasting of its programme to be launched-gas supply - to the poor in cities and distant villages, everywhere. If more than 15 per cent people are forced to sleep with no food in their stomach, what those people will do with the gas supplied to them, even though it is for free?

Government, here, may contend that it has already launched programmes like the one that provides 25-kg of food grains to the poor every month at a very cheaper rate. But it is painful for the government to accept that the grains meant for the poor don’t reach them. If it, somehow, is distributed among them is quite not fit to be eaten as the grains are completely rotten. Rampant malnutrition and dying of starvation also supports the cause.

A committee's report headed by West Bengal Finance Minister Arjun Sen Gupta says that vast majority of people are still earning not more than Rs 20 per day. This is a stunning revelation. Government is still apprehensive about all the findings. This data may be horrifying for us but not for the government. Government, actually, finds an opportunity to gain something from all these. Of late, government's data on below poverty line (BPL) numbers throw the people to doubt the government's intention about welfare of the poor family.

The poor people are forced to eat air (as they have nothing to eat and remain breathing only). They are habituated to do so. That is why government is trying to give air (gas). Now, where government itself is habituated to work, plan in air (imagination),  nothing more could be expected as such.