‘If arrogance had a face…’: Smriti Irani faces flak over hunger index remark

Union Minister Smriti Irani is under fire from the Opposition for her statement asserting that the Global Hunger Index (GHI) relies on surveying a small group within India's 1.4 billion population to gauge hunger. A video of her speech has gone viral on social media. Opposition leaders have strongly criticized Irani's comments, with Supriya Shrinate of the Congress labelling her remarks as "insensitive and ill-informed." Shrinate urged Irani not to trivialize the issue of hunger and expressed her disapproval on X. The Indian government has dismissed India's 111th rank out of 125 nations in the 2023 Global Hunger Index as flawed and potentially biased. The index, released on Thursday, also pointed out India's alarming child-wasting rate of 18.7%, signifying severe undernourishment.

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