Amartya Sen is wrong about the Food Security Bill

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen obviously has a point when he lambasts the Opposition for disrupting Parliament and not even allowing a discussion on various Bills. But his support for the Food Security Bill, and exhortation to pass it at the earliest, appears misplaced. As is the attempt to link malnutrition deaths to the non-passage of the Bill as well as the lack of access to food.

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