'Staggeringly out-of-touch claim': Congress on India becoming fourth 'most equal' country
The party said the appropriate rate to measure poverty in India, which is a "lower middle-income country", is $3.65 per day and by this measure, the poverty rate for India in 2022 is significantly higher at 28.1 per cent.
"The World Bank had released its Poverty and Equity Brief for India in April 2025. Three months after its release, the Modi Government's drumbeaters and cheerleaders have begun spinning the World Bank's data to make the staggeringly out-of-touch claim that India is among the… pic.twitter.com/jgxjkIy6aq