Lok Sabha in Chhattisagrh Election Amidst the gaining momentum of the campaign, a political battle has erupted over PDS. While senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has accused him of closing the schemes of the Congress government, current CM Vishnu Dev Sai has called it propaganda.
Congress leader Baghel has accused the poor of stopping the benefits of the schemes. He sarcastically wrote on Twitter, “The seven kilos of rice available to every member of our government has been stopped, the salt has been stopped, the gram has been stopped – by the way, by the way.
He further wrote, “Modi’s guarantee is working so ‘night and night’ that as soon as the Lok Sabha elections are over, the funds for Mahtari Vandan Yojana will also stop. If it is not stopped then the cuts will definitely start. “The public is now remembering those ‘five years of trust’.”
Terming Baghel’s allegations as propaganda, Chief Minister Sai wrote on Twitter, “Some people are spreading propaganda that the schemes of the previous government related to PDS have been stopped. The first thing is that the previous government had taken forward the public welfare schemes of the previous BJP government by changing their names. All benefits related to PDS continue as is.”
Chief Minister Sai has given the details of all the schemes on X through which the poor are getting benefits. It contains details of food grains like rice, sugar, salt, gram and jaggery allocated in September 2023, while the same contains details of food grains allocated in March 2024. In this statement, it has also been claimed that more food grains will be allocated in March 2024 than the food grains allocated in September 2023.
