Thiruvananthapuram: Targeting the BJP-led Union government at the Centre over the demolition drive in Delhi, veteran Marxist leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked whether India's 101st rank in the recent Global Hunger Index can be "erased with bulldozers?" The CM was referring to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021, released last October, which placed the country in an alarming 101st position. In a tweet in both English and Hindi, Vijayan also criticised the reported covering up of slums in Gujarat using curtains ahead of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to the western state.
The senior CPI(M) leader asked whether this problem can be solved by fanning hatred and resorting to communal politics, and said the country needs solutions and not diversions. "In the 2021 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 101st out of the 116 countries. Can this reality be covered up by curtains and erased with bulldozers? Can this problem be solved by fanning hatred and resorting to communal politics? We need solutions, not diversions!," Vijayan tweeted. The Kerala CM also included a Hindi version of his tweet along with the English text.