Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP, is being attacked by the Congress after his government suggested that it was using Rs. 10.80 a day as the marker to identify subsidy beneficiaries.

Mr Modi's government in Gujarat said over the weekend that welfare schemes like heavily subsidized food grain cannot be offered to households that earn more than Rs. 324 a month in villages or Rs. 501 in cities. That means that someone with a daily income of Rs. 10.80 is not considered among the state's poorest.

Mr Modi's government has said that the contentious figures are based on guidelines issued by the centre in 2004 for the allocation of ration cards which entitle poor families to subsidies. It also said that the centre's calculations allow 21 lakh families to receive subsidized grain and that the "State Government from its own sources, is giving the ration to additional 11 lakh families."

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