On Thursday, Congress said the Narendra Modi government had a “real face” because of a 4,600-crore food scam. The party called for a full report and punishment for those involved.
Abhishek Singhvi, a spokesman for the Congress party, said the government changed the auction rules in 2018 to benefit “a few big millers.” The government was supposed to give pulses worth 4,600 crores to the poor and the armed forces.
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He said that the CAG found that NAFED “allowed” big millers to “swindle” tons of pulses meant for the poor because the auction rules had been changed.
“Here is a government that is cheating over food and letting crooks take advantage of something as simple as pulses.” We owe Covid a lot because this scam might not have been found so quickly without them.
“With Covid, there was the thought of giving away pulses for free or at a low price, and this scam was found out,” Mr. Singhvi said.
He said it was a “huge scam.”
It’s not clear to me what the facts are. I don’t think this is even a small part of the iceberg. He said that we want the government to make a full report right away.
We want a detailed report on how this happened and how it was punished at the top. Call on everyone else to do the same thing. “About everything, this shows the real nature,” Mr. Singhvi said.
It was said that when the UPA government put the Food Security Act into place, the BJP didn’t like it. Now, “this food scam” is taking place under their government.
His words about the scam: Mr. Singhvi said it was “uncompassionate, unfeeling and an act that doesn’t care about other people.”
When the BJP talks about a “food scam,” it shows that 10 years of wide-ranging social welfare programs are very different from their idea of “food fraud.” People who work for NAFED didn’t like how the government changed the rules for milling grams and giving it to the poor in 2018.
There is now an allegation that there has been a scam of 4,600 crores and that it has been brought to the attention of constitutional authority.
He said, “The irony is that NAFED wrote a letter last October saying that they didn’t like the new rules and wanted them to be changed back.”
