# AAP’s Bharadwaj alleges ₹22,000-crore rice scam in Delhi 2026-08-09T05:40:53+00:00 | Politics | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet (2 source reports) AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday alleged a ₹22,000-crore scam in the diversion of subsidised rice meant for Delhi’s poor. He said the city government’s food department, headed by BJP minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa, requested 31,000 metric tonnes of rice per week from the Food Corporation of India. The rice was supposedly to go to an Assam-based corporation, but Bharadwaj claimed it was instead sold to a private firm in Haryana. He pegged the weekly value of the alleged diversion at ₹143 crore and said the Centre’s vigilance wing detected the arrangement. Neither the Delhi government nor the FCI had responded as of Sunday afternoon. This is the third corruption charge the AAP has levelled against the Rekha Gupta government in three months. ## Coverage - hindustantimes.com - hindustantimes.com (2) This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-09-27T06:07:42+00:00. Tags: AAP, BJP, Delhi, FCI, rice scam, Saurabh Bharadwaj Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/aaps-bharadwaj-alleges-rs22000-crore-rice-scam-in-delhi/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/aaps-bharadwaj-alleges-rs22000-crore-rice-scam-in-delhi/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/