Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a new programme, Nishulk Khadyan Vitran or free food grain distribution, to offer food to underprivileged people in the state until Holi next year. BJP workers say that the programme is going to be successful and many such schemes are going to be launched to help out the poor people of the state.
“The new programme is going to be 100% successful. We have distributed chana, namak, gehu and so forth. Many underprivileged people who were not receiving food during the lockdown are benefiting from the programme. Moreover, our party is focusing on construction and other developmental works in the state,” Kanta Kardam, BJP’s Rajya Sabha member from UP told The Daily Guardian.
Other BJP members too are quite positive about the success rate of this programme. “The programme that the CM has launched is going to be very successful and a large number of people will benefit from the scheme,” BJP leader Shiv Pratap Shukla, told The Daily Guardian.
While addressing the launch programme, CM Adityanath said, “In 2021, after the second wave, we introduced the scheme under which free food grains were delivered from Ramnavami to Diwali, almost seven months. Since we have a double engine government in UP, people can take food grains twice a month from this Diwali to Holi.”
“We have launched a free food grains distribution programme under the National Food Security Act. As many as 80 crore people in the country will benefit under this scheme including 15 crore in Uttar Pradesh. The UP government also distributed free food grains for a term of three months,” he added:
Targeting the previous government, he hinted that before 2017, the food grains were being received by food mafias and then sold to other states. However, the scheme is now fairly and transparently implemented in the state.