CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s leader of opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa of the Congress claimed on Saturday that the state government’s scheme of home delivering wheat flour (atta) to the beneficiaries was "ill-conceived" and floated in haste for political mileage on the advice of big corporate houses, "which will only lead to corruption".
Bajwa alleged that: "In the guise of this scheme, the AAP government wants to please the corporate houses and render more than 17,000 ration depot holders jobless.” Bajwa questioned the need for pumping in more than Rs 500 crore into just distributing the wheat flour when the process was well taken care of by the ration depots. “It seems that some private players close to the government are eager to make a quick buck out of this scheme," he said.
