BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said the Opposition's "allegation" was a "scurrilous attempt" to tarnish the image of India and that "Rahul Gandhi and Congress party have been engaged" in this activity for over three years.
"The Opposition's allegation that India's rank in the Global Hunger Index 2017 report has slipped to 100th position from 55th in 2014 is mischievous, baseless and represents travesty of truth," he said in a statement.
Rao explained that in 2014, India's ranking on this index was 55th but at that time only 76 countries were included in the ranking.
In the Global Hunger Index in 2017, he said, 44 countries which were not part of the index in 2014 and which have always had better development indices compared to India, have been included.
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"By deliberately suppressing this fact, Rahul Gandhi and Congress party are guilty of deliberate prevarication and obfuscation," he said.
Rao said the ranking is based on the performance during 2012-16, and during this period Congress was in power for 2.5 years, preceded by about eight years of their rule.
The GHI ranks countries on a scale of 100 points with 0 (zero) being the best and 100 the worst scores, he said, adding India has improved its score from 35.6 in 2008 to 31.4 in 2017.
On all the four parameters of the GHI study, the country's position has improved except one parameter 'Prevalence of wasting in children under 5 years', he said.
"India's position was improving on this parameters also from 1994 to 2002, but drastically worsened between 2002 and 2016, which contains a decade of Congress rule," he added.