New Delhi: BJP candidate from Puri, Odisha shared a video on twitter which exposed the much-hyped Ujjwala Yojana scheme of Modi government. His video drew flak from Twitterati who slammed him for eating food at a family’s house while a woman cooks in the background using a wood-fired oven.
Sambit Patra, the BJP spokesperson who is contesting from the temple town of Puri in Odisha for the Lok Sabha elections, while campaigning in the constituency, posted a video showing him visiting a family in the constituency.
Patra shared a meal with the family, sitting on the floor, eating food from a banana leaf plate kept in front of him, however, in the video, a woman sitting and cooking the meal on a wood-fire, the earthen oven could be seen.
पुरी के एक छोटे से गांव में में रहने वाली एक बूढ़ी विधवा माँ, उसकी तीन बेटियां जिनमें 2 दिव्यांग व बेटा मजदूरी करता है। ऐसी माँ का घर बनाने का काम श्री @narendramodi जी ने किया है। [1/2]@BJP4Odisha #PhirEkBaarModiSarkar pic.twitter.com/zhAzafVjbr
— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) March 31, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_PpUOiuKw
The video took social media by storm. Several critics took to Twitter to question, why the woman in the video was cooking using the earthen-oven, questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Ujjwala Yojana scheme.
उज्जवला कहां है संबित जी, चूल्हे के धुएं में खाना पकवा रहे हो गरीब महिला से @narendramodi @dpradhanbjp
— Shivam Gupta (@shivamg1981) March 31, 2019
https://twitter.com/scribe_prashant/status/1112255819675062272
https://twitter.com/asif_sheikkhh/status/1112271263781707778
Reality!👇
With the Ujjwala Yojana, Mr. Modi boasts of having provided crores of women with gas cylinders !#ModiLies #NyayForIndia #EkHiChokidarChorHai
https://t.co/EKFSHgLEVl— Vidya (@Vidyaraj51) March 31, 2019
इस माता को उज्ज्वला योजना में सीलेंडर नहीं मिला क्या. धुएं में खाना बनाने को मजबूर है।
— Vidyut Maurya (@vidyut_maurya) March 31, 2019