Sharing a video of students in a school in Madhya Pradesh eating their midday meals on a newspaper, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mohan Yadav should feel ashamed for nurturing “India’s future” in such a “pitiable state”.

The video was from a school in Hullpur village in Sheopur district’s Vijaypur block, NDTV reported on Thursday. Videos circulating online showed the students eating food, which is part of the midday meal scheme, served on newspapers spread on the ground.

The midday meal programme under the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman is a centrally-sponsored scheme that is aimed at providing nutritious meals to students enrolled in government and aided schools.

Sheopur District Collector Arpit Verma had

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