Bhubaneswar, Feb. 23 -- The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on Friday claimed they have seen through the ruling Biju Janata Dal's (BJD) plan to extend KALIA yojana by three years and giving Rs 2000 to landless beneficiaries ahead of the Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly Elections.

The BJP alleged that the KALIA yojana extension is nothing but the BJD government's bait thrown at the farmers with an aim to subdue the growing anti-government wave.

"The BJD government is in fear and apprehension. When KALIA yojana was launched, the government had promised that farmers would get Rs 10,000 each. That promise was not kept. The government should immediately give them Rs 10,000 as they had announced in their election manifes...