AICC general secretary RS Surjewala accused the BJP of trying to scuttle implementation of its ambitious election promise. The programme, he said in a tweet, would cover 1.28 crore families consisting of about 4.42 crore people. The Congress regime, he said, was ready to set aside Rs 11,000 crore for the programme, but the Modi government had asked the Food Corporation of India (FCI) not to give Karnataka the additional rice it was asking for.
