Rajnath Singh Commends Surplus Food Grain Distribution

"Beneficiaries getting surplus food grains": Rajnath Singh praises free ration scheme

"Beneficiaries are receiving surplus food grains": Rajnath Singh praises free ration scheme

The Defence Minister also emphasized that the country's food inflation rate was the “lowest in the world.”

On Wednesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated that under the Centre's flagship free ration scheme, beneficiaries were receiving more food grains than they could consume, leading them to sell the surplus in the market.

"Are you not receiving five kilograms of food grains?" he asked attendees at an election rally in Bihar's Karakat Lok Sabha constituency.

"If there are four members in a family, each is receiving a supply of five kilograms, and those who have more than enough to consume, sell off the surplus," the senior BJP leader said.

Singh, however, emphasized that the BJP-led central government was not doing people a "favor" by providing them with welfare measures, adding that "BJP members work with the spirit of service."

He also cited figures to assert that the country's food inflation rate was the “lowest in the world.”

“There is so much hullabaloo around price rise. I would like to tell you that the food inflation in the country is the lowest in the world at 2.91%. In the United States, it is 7.79%, 19% in France, 8.5% in Australia, 48% in Pakistan, and 21% in Sri Lanka,” he noted.