India, Aug. 9 -- Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday alleged a Rs.22,000-crore scam in the diversion of subsidised rice meant for the capital's poor, pointing fingers at a department of the Delhi government run by the BJP, a corporation based in BJP-ruled Assam, and an unnamed private firm in Haryana, another state run by the Centre's ruling party.

"A new scam of the Delhi government has come to light, and this scam is so big that it will blow your mind - a rice scam," Bharadwaj, who served as a minister when Arvind Kejriwal was CM, said in a video message shared on X.

In the video and an accompanying post, he alleged a chain involving four actors, essentially saying that rice meant for the poor was sold t...