AAP's Saurabh Bharadwaj alleges ‘ ₹22,000 crore rice scam plan’ by Delhi govt
Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that Delhi government sought highly subsidised rice to distribute among poor people but it never reached the public.
Former Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, a member of the Aam Aadmi Party, has alleged in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the current Bharatiya Janata Party government is planning a scam involving the subsidised distribution of rice. According to Bharadwaj, the Delhi government and a corporation based in Assam sent a formal request to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for heavily subsidised rice amounting to ₹22,000 crore over a three-year period.
However, Bharadwaj claims that the rice was never distributed to the poor people of Delhi but instead sold to a private company in Haryana for profit. He alleges that this scam would have resulted in a loss of ₹143 crore per week for three years, totaling ₹22000 crore. Bharadwaj also claims that the Delhi government's food, supplies, and consumer affairs minister, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, was involved in writing the request to the FCI.
The scam has since been identified by the Central government's vigilance department, according to Bharadwaj.
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