New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday accused the BJP-led authorities on the Centre of “conspiring” to fail the state authorities’s Anna Bhagya scheme by denying states from buying rice from Meals Company of India.
Underneath the scheme, the Congress-led Karnataka authorities had promised to offer 10kg of free rice every month to each member of a Under Poverty Line family. In a press convention, Siddaramaiah stated that on 12 June, his authorities and the Meals Company of India got here to an settlement over the acquisition of two.22 lakh metric tonnes of rice.
Nevertheless, on 13 June, the Union Ministry of Client Affairs, Meals, and Public Distribution issued a directive to the FCI that did away with the scheme of promoting wheat and rice to state governments underneath the Open Market Sale Scheme (Home). Solely the Northeast states have been exempted.
Siddaramaiah alleged that the Centre’s motion was an effort to “play politics” within the subject of free provision of rice to the underprivileged. He accused the Centre of being “anti-poor” and in search of failure of the Congress-led authorities in Karnataka in implementing the scheme. Within the press convention, he talked about that his authorities was making an attempt to obtain rice from different state governments.
The Siddaramaiah-led authorities has assured that each one 5 pre-poll guarantees made by the celebration within the run as much as the meeting elections shall be carried out on this fiscal yr itself.
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