Jakhar demands high-level probe into blue card scam
Monday, 25/08/2014
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Abohar : Congress Legislative Party Leader Sunil Jakhar said here today that 33,000 applications for blue cards had been collected by organising camps in a town which has a population of 1.75 lakh, including minors. He said 15,000 cards had been prepared and beneficiaries were being forced to attend photo-sessions sponsored by SAD workers and to humiliate them socially, pictures were being released through the regional media. Still, hundreds of government seed farm colony residents took to streets to express anguish over denial of such cards which entitles them to avail subsidised food grain under the Food Security Act, he added.
Addressing meetings in tail-end villages Kallarkhera and Panniwala Mahla, he said Congress legislators had produced affidavits signed by thousands of ration-card holders declaring that they had been never supplied kerosene oil and fake entries had been made in the stock issue registers to siphon off the essential commodities. Jakhar said the Chief Minister had not kept his word about a high-level inquiry into the scam. Claiming that complaints over the issuance of blue cards to affluent families were pouring in from across the state, he demanded a high-level inquiry by an independent agency.
