Ranchi, May 24 -- BJP state president and leader of opposition Babulal Marandi has made serious allegations against the Jharkhand government and said that Sona Sobran Dhoti-Sari Yojana has fallen prey to corruption. He wrote on the social media platform X that the Jharkhand government had planned to give dhoti-sari to the poor for Rs 10, but instead of delivering it to the poor, the government is selling it in the open market through middlemen.

Babulal alleged that Hemant Soren called this scheme his dream project and confused the public, but in reality government is selling clothes purchased from the government budget in the open market. He said that it is clearly written on these dhoti-saris that "Specially Manufactured for Government of...