The argument given by the official was that this will ensure a ‘transparent system’ as well as develop a market at the local level which in turn will generate self-employment opportunities in rural areas.Opposition parties see this scheme as a ploy to ‘buy’ votes from the people. “This BJP government has failed on all fronts and therefore, it is looking for schemes to lure voters. This is the same government which had claimed last year that it has successfully provided sweaters, bags and other dresses to children. If that scheme was successful, why did it switch over to giving money directly to beneficiaries,” Amarnath Agarwal, a senior Congress leader, said.SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhry said that people are fed up with the Yogi government’s policies which has led to inflation, a worsening law and order situation, atrocities against women and increase in unemployment.
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