NEW DELHI: The Congress said Saturday there is a perception that the government is leading the country towards a "starvation-like situation", a day after an official survey reportedly pointed to a fall in consumer spending for the first time in four decades in 2017-18. Venugopal, general secretary (organization) of the Congress party told reporters, "We discussed (in a meeting) about the latest leak of an NSO report regarding the consumption of food items and consumption - everything. This is very much shocking. Actually, there is a perception in the country that the government is leading to a starvation-like situation due to the bad policies of the government. "He was addressing the media after a meeting of party's general secretaries, chiefs of its frontal organisations, department heads, state unit chiefs and CLP leaders.Venugopal said his party's district-level and state-level agitations against the Centre's "anti-people policies" would culminate in a "massive rally" at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on November 30.

Source: Economic Times November 16, 2019 12:56 UTC