BJP alleges scam in ration distribution

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 16

BJP leaders on Friday alleged that one of the ministers and few MLAs of the ruling party in Punjab were involved in a fake ration card scam. Parveen Bansal, senior leader of the BJP, claimed that under the garb of “Garib Kalyan Yojna”, the minister and MLAs allegedly got fake blue cards made on which ration was shown to be given, while ration worth several crores of rupees was either stocked or was sold or given to near and dear ones.

Bansal said over 1.42 crore persons were to be benefited from this scheme. No migrant in the district was to be left without this benefit but instead of giving ration to actual deserving poor and needy, the things were either sold or distributed to near and dear ones or were stocked by the Congress leaders, he alleged.

“There are several such cards with us, which are bogus. Either the names are not matching or these are not under the name of main female person in the family. A new portal was made for showing these cards and later, this portal was attached with the main portal. This ration was to be distributed among poor and needy but it was wrongly distributed or stocked”, said Bansal.

The BJP leaders, including Parveen Bansal, Sunil Moudgil, Inder Aggarwal and Sarabjit Singh Kaka said that a vigilance probe should be done into the matter and strict action should be taken against the guilty.

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