In the run-up to the 2024 general elections, the Food Corporation of India wrote to all its 26 regional offices on January 12, 2024, asking them to float tenders for bags with an indicative logo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in order to distribute food grains under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, or PMGKAY. Months later, while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh, Modi proudly spoke about his government’s scheme of free rations implemented in 2020, telling those in attendance that he empathised with those who had known hunger.
