Bhubaneswar, May 15 -- Bhubaneswar: A day after assistance under PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna and the State-sponsored KALIA scheme distributed among the farmers, politics in the State heated up over the two agricultural schemes on Saturday.

Launching a scathing attack on the ruling BJD government, BJP alleged that many farmers in the State are being deprived of the advantages of the centrally-sponsored scheme as the Odisha government is not providing the list of beneficiaries to the Union government.

"There is no problem for the Central government to provide assistance to the farmers of the country. Odisha has no clue as to how many sharecroppers and landless farmers are there in the State. There are many small farmers in the State who a...