No genuine beneficiary will suffer, say Amargarh, Malerkotla MLAs

Amargarh legislator Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra and Malerkotla legislator Mohammad Jamil Ur Rahman have announced that the name of no genuine beneficiary registered under the National Food Security Act would be deleted arbitrarily in any of the three subdivisions of the district.

Nearly 33,000 beneficiaries, whose supply had been stopped on pretext of a KYC discrepancy, will also get all facilities with retrospect effect after getting the needful done, said the legislators.

Office-bearers of various subdivision and block level units of Aam Aadmi Party will also soon launch a campaign to spread awareness about the ‘sinister designs’ of the BJP to pressure Punjabis in general and members of the lower strata of society through threats of deletion of ration cards and online registration for providing facilities, claimed the legislators.

“Though enrollments for all facilities had been made on the basis of identities and eligibility of beneficiaries, we will follow instructions of Punjab Government for verifying any suspicious case,” said Gajjan Majra and Rahman, cautioning that mass deletion, as threatened by the Union Government would not be allowed.

Regretting that 33,626 eligible beneficiaries of the NFSA were already suffering in the district for no fault of theirs, the legislators claimed that personnel concerned had been advised to expedite the process for restoration of the facility with retrospective effect.

AAP district president and Chairman of District Planning Board Saqib Ali Raja said teams of volunteers had been constituted to help affected beneficiaries get their supplies restored and educate residents about the ‘agendas’ of rival parties to defame the Punjab Government on some pretext.

“Our volunteers will reach out to the masses to make them aware that the threat to delete 11 lakh beneficiaries of the NFSA is not an administrative step but an assault on the esteem of residents of Punjab which has remained the feeding bowl of the whole nation for the last eight decades,” said Raja.