The Government to ensure that they are

The Government to ensure that they are taking care of them. That was the principal Dravidian model and we followed it. But you always have double talk. You say one thing during the election times because you want to win, and after the elections are over, everything is put under the carpet. Sir, I would make a point about fuel prices. All the three Fs affect the common people directly. A sum of Rs.22,000 crore have been paid to the oil marketing companies as gas subsidy. This is what we all the political parties have been talking about. The hon. Prime Minister came forward and said to the people to give up their gas subsidy so that we would be able to wipe out the tears of every poor woman in villages who is cooking using firewood.