The Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress party on Sunday claimed that the State Government during the past 12 years had distributed ration through its Public Distribution System (PDS) worth Rs84,000 crore.
While, contesting Chhattisgarh Government’s claim that Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department had total turnover of Rs26,841 crore on his party’s allegation on the Government of masterminding Rs36,000 crore scam in supplying rice to the poor through PDS, State Congress Chief Bhupesh Baghel stated: “If we include paddy procurement with distribution of ration, then in the past 12 years this Government had spent Rs1.50 lakh crore.”
“The Government had prepared 70 lakh ration cards, in which, every month, ration of Rs1,000 was distributed which comes to distribution of ration worth Rs84,000 crore during the past 12 years of the BJP regime,” he said in a Press conference here.
Baghel affirmed that the party had proof of corruption to the tune of Rs36,000 crore.Countering BJP’s claim that there was no ‘diary’ in the case, Baghel presented the copy of challan produced by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in court and said that ACB has produced 6 pages out of 113 page diary belonging to the prime accused Shiv Shankar Bhatt.
Commenting over one of the main accused SS Bhatt’s denial about existence of any diary, he said, “it seems the BJP is taking certificate from criminals.Baghel demanded formation of Special Investigation Team (SIT) and said that Congress would definitely approach the court in this case.