lucknow chief minister yogi adityanath on sunday mounted a searing attack on previous state governments accusing them of clandestinely channelizing food grains to the khadyan ration mafia who would then smuggle the consignments abroad the cm made the sharp attack during the launch of a campaign for free distribution of food grains to 15crore poor till march next yearasserting that foodgrain distribution scheme was being implemented in a transparent manner yogi said diversion and underweighing of grains were rampant in the previous regime he categorically raked up the of 2005 foodgrain scam in the previous sp rule to send out a stern message to the akhilesh yadavled political outfit which has been putting up an aggressive front in the runup to state pollsyeh silsila lagataar chalta raha this went on for years yogi said stressing that hunger deaths were reported during 201516 when sp was in power he said it was after bjp assumed power in 2017 that the state government streamlined food grain distribution to ration card holdershe also slammed opposition leaders for deliberately misleading the poor on covid19 vaccination opposition leaders knew that if all poor took vaccines they would end up in a political exile he saidreiterating that his government was prepared to counter the possible third corona wave yogi said the campaign is in addition to upgraded medical facilities free vaccination and aggressive testing to counter the pandemic this comes in addition to foodgrain distribution done by the centre under its flagship pm gareen kalyan anna yojana which also entails distribution of 5kg foodgrain to the poor the joint campaign of the centre and the state government reflects benefits accrued from the doubleengine government yogi saidthe campaign was seen as bjps fresh attempt to reach out to the poor hitherto hit by economic slowdown and reverse migration of labourers during the first wave the pmgkay which was rolled out between april to november last year had benefited 80 crore people every monththe up government too joined the centre in wheeling out food grains to the poor in april may and june during the second wave the centre carried out campaigns from may to october the up government too chipped in to provide food grains in june july and august the centre later extended the scheme till march next year