Rahul Gandhi criticizes the government for allowing the use of rice to make disinfectant

NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized the government for reports that rice would be used to make disinfectants and asked the country’s poor when they will wake up.
He said that while the poor are starving, the government allowed rice to be used to make disinfectants.
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“After all, when will the poor of India wake up? You are starving and you are busy cleaning the hands of the wealthy with disinfectants on your portion of rice,” he said in a Hindi tweet.

He attached a news report on the government’s decision to allow the use of surplus rice for the manufacture of disinfectants in the country.
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The government approved Monday that surplus rice available from Food Corporation of India (FCI) can be converted to ethanol to make alcohol-based hand sanitizers and also to mix with gasoline.
The decision was made at a meeting of the National Biofuels Coordination Committee (NBCC).
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