Punjab Revenue & Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Thursday said that Congress-led UPA government’s Cabinet approval to half-cooked National Food Security Bill to tempt the common masses on the eve of general elections would not work for this most corrupt Government since Independence.
Describing the draft bill as poor carbon copy of the SAD-BJP Government’s most successful Atta-Dal scheme, Majithia pointed out that Congress led UPA Government had never bothered for the interests of poor people as by unleashing non-stop inflation it had turned the lives of common people in to a nightmare. He said that it has proposed 5 kg of rice, wheat or millets for per family in the bill and it would serve no purpose. He pointed out that Parkash Singh Badal led SAD-BJP Government from its limited sources has been providing 35 kg wheat and 4 kg dal to more than 16 lac families since 2007 by spending hundreds of crores to enable them to have two squares meal.