AAP: Centre again denied permission to Delhi to implement ration delivery scheme

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday claimed that the Centre has once again refused to allow the Delhi government to implement the scheme for doorstep delivery of ration on the basis of a complaint by ration shopkeepers.

AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that it is a clear case of collusion between the BJP and the ration mafia.

The BJP said neither the party nor the Centre has any problem with the Delhi government scheme if it can arrange its own ration.

AAP dispensation had on Tuesday sent the file on the doorstep ration delivery scheme to Lt Governor Anil Baijal for his approval for the third time after the Delhi High Court last week allowed the government to conditionally implement it.

The Centre in a letter sent to the Delhi government's Food and Supplies Department, said that the doorstep ration scheme ‘does not meet the norms of the National Food Security Act and hence the government of India does not allow it’

Bharadwaj claimed the BJP-led central government is in contempt of the court as it has blocked the Delhi government's doorstep delivery of ration scheme despite clear orders of the high court allowing it.