Amarinder promises one-rupee wheat flour

Addressing a public rally here, Singh said, under the proposed National Food Security Act, which has already been approved by the union cabinet and is being introduced in the parliament, the poor across the country will get flour (aata) for Re one per kg.

It will be for far too less price than what Akalis are claiming to provide at Rs 4 per kg, he said. Even Rs 4 per kg aata was not provided by the Akalis of their own as it was government of India which is providing the state ten thousand tonnes of wheat every month for distributing among the people living below poverty line, he added. "And what to speak of acknowledging it, they are claiming it to be their own," he remarked.