New Delhi, October 31, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday welcomed the findings of the World Bank’s India Poverty and Equity Brief, claiming that the report had “mocked” the INDIA bloc’s ‘Mock Parliament’. The BJP was referring to the Opposition alliance’s ‘public impeachment’ event against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the electoral process and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Addressing a press conference, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said the report reflected the Narendra Modi-led government’s success in bringing a significant section of the population out of poverty.
“After failing in its intentions to create anarchy in India, the Congress Party organised a mock parliament—a fabricated drama—just to console their spoiled prince,” he said, in an indirect reference to Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
“However, right at the time of this drama, a powerful reality from the World Bank was presented before the nation. In its 2025 report, the World Bank stated that between 2011 and 2023, India achieved rapid success in eradicating multidimensional poverty. It highlighted that today, only 2.6 per cent of people in India live under extreme poverty, compared to over 27 per cent a decade ago,” Trivedi said.
The BJP leader also cited the World Bank’s October 2026 Poverty and Equity Brief for India, which stated that the share of the population living below the lower-middle-income poverty line of $4.20 per day, measured at 2021 purchasing power parity, declined from 57.7 per cent in 2011 to 16.1 per cent in 2023.
“The reality is that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the BJP-led government is not only committed to ensuring a better standard of living for every Indian, but is also achieving success in doing so. We have achieved a big success in eradicating multidimensional poverty and it has been accepted in the World Bank’s report,” he stated.
Referring to the Gini Index on economic equality released by the World Bank in August 2025, Trivedi recalled that India had scored 22.5.
“This meant that India was ranked among the countries with the highest economic equality in the world, standing at the fourth position. Even though India had the lowest level of economic inequality among all G7 and G20 nations at that time. This is the reality,” he said.
Targeting Rahul Gandhi, Trivedi said: “What can be said about Rahul Gandhi, who in August 2013 stated that ‘poverty is a mindset’—implying that poverty is merely a state of mind and other things will fall into place on their own… Meanwhile, Dr. Manmohan Singh had once said that ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’.”
According to the BJP leader, there was a “stark, vast difference” between the approach of Rahul Gandhi and the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“By treating poverty as just a mindset, they (Congress-led UPA) kept a vast population of India trapped in extreme poverty. However, it is clear from the World Bank’s report that 27.6 per cent people who were under poverty at that time (Congress-led regime) are now out of it. So, I think the figures of the World Bank have mocked the ‘Mock Parliament’,” he remarked.
Trivedi further said that while the BJP-led NDA was working towards eliminating poverty under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, the Congress, under Rahul Gandhi, was “busy in spreading anarchy following their unsuccessful efforts in removing PM Modi from power”.
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