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Uttar Pradesh minister again accuses poor of being 'drunks'

NEW DELHI: A minister from Uttar Pradesh has again accused the poor of being "drunks" who vote for anyone who offers them chicken and alcohol, reported ANI news agency.The minister, Om Prakash Rajbhar , said that the poor don't vote for those who offer them humble fare, like 'baati chokha', instead they vote in droves for those candidates who offer them chicken and alcohol. ANI didn't specify when or where Rajbhar made this comment.Rajbhar is the president of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, a BJP ally in the UP government. He's also the minister for backward and handicapped welfare. And this isn't the first time he's accused the poor of being partial to alcohol.Three months ago, he accused members of his own community - the Rajbhars - of alcohol abuse . He said that people of his community consume, in a day, liquor that costs as much as what the Bharatiya Janata Party spends in a month.