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UP spent Rs 300 cr per month to deliver free ration ahead of state polls The distribution of soybean oil, salt and chana, was in addition to the free foodgrains distributed through PDS under the Centre's NFSA and also the PMGKAY
Over 1.4 million tonnes of wheat, 0.95 million tonnes of rice, 0.10 million tonnes of chana (gram), 10.19 crore litres of soybean oil and 0.10 million tonnes of salt was the free ration that the Yogi Adityanath government distributed in UP between December 2021 to February 2022 as part the Covid relief package just ahead of the state polls, officials said. Several political commentators and observers have attributed the free ration distribution as being one of the factors that turned the voters towards the ruling dispensation in...read more