Free LPG awaits poor' Digvijay raja and family

Bhopal: Former chief minister and AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh and his family members have been enlisted as Below Poverty Line (BPL) families eligible for free LPG connections.

Mr Singh along with his MLA son Jaywardan and his brother Laxman have found place in the list of proposed beneficiaries of free LPG, as members of BPL families, in his native town of Raghogarh in Guna district in Madhya Pradesh, provoking sharp reactions from the veteran politician.

“Government of Madhya Pradesh, and Government of India includes my name, my brother’s name, my son’s name in BPL! We are all income tax payees. We have never applied nor taken any benefit under BPL. This is a conspiracy against me and my family,” Mr Singh tweeted. “Those responsible should apologise and should be punished,” he tweeted.

The list has been prepared under government’s Ujjala Yojana which proposes to provide free LPG connections to all BPL families in the country by 2019.

“The latest census survey has covered Digvijay Singh and his families gathering details of their movable and immovable properties. But, how they made into the list of beneficiaries under Ujjala Yojana was being probed into,” local CMO Brujesh Gupta said.

The development cast a shadow over enumeration of genuine beneficiaries by the authorities concerned for getting free LPG connections.

Sources claimed the list contained names of undeserving people as proposed beneficiaries under the scheme. “We will raise the issue in the ongoing monsoon session of MP assembly”, a Congress spokesman here told this newspaper.