India, Sept. 3 -- Asserting that previous Congress Governments gave food security to people, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said that steps by Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi made lives better for the poor and questioned the contribution of the Modi Government.

Addressing an event where the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy Award-2026 was presented to the S Swaminathan Research Foundation, he said Indira Gandhi fought against hunger with the Green Revolution, and later Sonia Gandhi gave the 'right to food' to every Indian.

Kharge said the scale of the transformation can be seen clearly in the numbers from 1960-61 to 1980-81, when rice production increased by more than 50 per cent (34.6 million tonnes to 53.6 million tonnes), while whe...