Coimbatore (TN): Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi why there were so many poor people in the country even decades after former prime minister Indira Gandhi coined the slogan of 'garibi hatao' (eradicate poverty).

"Fifty years after his (Rahul's) grandmother giving the slogan of 'garibi hatao', why are there still so many poor people in the country? Rahul Gandhi should answer that first," Goyal told reporters in Coimbatore.
The Union minister blamed the Congress and the Gandhi family for the poverty in the country.