AGARTALA, July 30 (TIWN): Raising voice against the rampant corruption in various parts of the state, especially against the Food Security Act, the congress on Thursday staged a mass protest and placed a memorandum to SDM (Sadar) Manik Lal Das demanding to take a strict action to bring down the corruption in the state.

The congress raised allegation saying that the draft list prepared in most of the sub-division under the Food Security Act includes the name of the rich cadres instead of the real section of people who are the genuine beneficiaries of the Act.

Without taking any views from the Opposition, the Left-front government has engaged themselves in preparing the BPL draft list. Even the elected representatives of opposition political parties have not been taken into confidence and the entire lists are being prepared by the party cadres, claimed the congress.

The draft list of the beneficiaries mostly includes the families holding Government service, Business man and people earning more than Rs. 10, 000 per annum are made the true beneficiaries of BPL Card.

Along with the capital, the party has also placed memorandum to all 23 sub-divisional magistrate. Opposition Leader Sudip Roy Barman and MLA Gopal Roy, MLA Jitendra Sarkar, District President Bolai Goswami and other dignitaries were present at the demonstration.

PCC President Birajit Sinha, accusing the CPI-M and its ruling Left front government in Tripura, earlier said, “A large section of the poor and down trodden section of the society has been intentionally left out since they do not owe allegiance towards the party in power.”

Adding Sinha claimed that the congress have been demanding the state government since long to rectify and amend the BPL listed families, but as of now the government has not initiated any steps in bringing out corrected BPL card holders’ list.