Picture on food.

"Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman scolded Collector of Kamareddy district Jitesh Patil...for being unable to provide an answer to what was the Center and the state's share of rice supplied through fair price shops." ET. She asked "as to why the picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was missing at the shop in Birkur". Fair price shops, commonly known as 'ration shops', are part of the public distribution system (PDS) through which the government distributes wheat, rice, sugar and other essentials at subsidised rates to the poor. wikipedia. As FM, Ms Sitharaman surely knows that all subsidised food is paid for by taxes on the same poor people and not personally by Mr Modi. "The gross GST revenue collected in the month of August 2022 stood at Rs 1,43,612 crore (Rs 1.44 trillion), up 28% on a year-on-year basis, the Finance Ministry said." ET.   GST collection has exceeded Rs 1.4 trillion for 6 months in a row. GST, or the Goods and Services Tax, is collected on all goods and services, from toothpaste to life saving drugs and hospitals which even the poor are forced to pay to survive. In July, Sitharaman celebrated enhanced GST collections and said that this is the "new normal". TOI. So rapacious is this government, that "convenience charges and GST will be applicable if income tax is paid by using the 'payment gateway' on the e-filing income tax website". ET. Sitharaman is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "The BJP is a Hindu nationalist political party in India that believes that Hinduism and Indian national identity are more or less synonymous. For many in the party, Indian culture is quite simply Hindu culture," wrote Milan Vaishnav. However, in 2019, Home Minister Amit Shah said that the BJP does not see India as  Hindu Rashtra (Hindu state). India Today. So, given that we the people of India are paying for subsidised food for the poor, why does Sitharaman want Modi's pictures at fair price shops? Does she want people to worship Modi as they are having their meals? We Hindus believe that Goddess Annapurna provides all food and nourishment. wikipedia. Christians, especially Catholics, have prayers thanking God before starting their meals. christianity.com. Most of us Hindus do not know of any formal prayer to be recited before meals. Modi's picture on vaccine certificates for Covid caused problems for Indians traveling abroad. They were suspected of fraud. Deepti Tamhane was stopped at Frankfurt airport. "They were aghast at seeing the picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the bottom of the certificate. Tamhane had to explain to them that the image wasn't hers, and went on to explain to them how the image was of Indian PM Modi." indiatimes.com. Regarding subsidised food, Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao said that "the Center supplies 10 kg of  rice at Rs 3 per kg to only 50 to 55 percent of the cardholders under NFSA (National Food Security Act) and for the rest 45-50 percent, Telangana government supplies at its own cost." Telangana is ruled by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti which won 88 out of 119 seats in the Assembly in 2018, with K Chandrashekhar Rao as Chief Minister. telangana.gov.in. So, what now? Half and half picture of Modi and Chandrashekhar? After all, sharing is caring.