The decision makes PMGKAY amongst the world’s biggest social welfare schemes aimed at ensuring food and nutrition security for 81.35 crore people, at an estimated cost of Rs 11.80 lakh crore, over a five-year period.
“The prime minister will not say anything about the work done by the Rajasthan government as Modi has no issues to talk and tell the nation,” he said at a press conference here.
The free ration distribution turned out to be a major issue in the recently concluded Assembly polls in which the BJP retained power in the state.
State BJP spokesperson Vinod Thakur said state Congress chief Kuldeep Singh Rathore’s demand of white paper on free ration scheme was not only absurd but it was also an assault on common man’s feelings as it was their right.
