Chandigarh, Feb. 28 -- The eyebrow raising record paddy procurement rocked the Haryana Assembly on Friday with the Opposition accusing the government of presiding over a multi-crore paddy procurement scandal, triggering sharp exchanges in the House. The principal opposition party, the Congress, alleged that the irregularities began from the "Meri Fasal-Mera Byora" portal and extended up to rice mills. The Congress legislators claimed that rice millers, commission agents, transport contractors and certain government officials with political patronage were hand in glove and executed what the party said was a "Rs.5,000 crore paddy scam". The issue found a centre stage in the House through three separate calling attention notices moved by Congress MLAs Ashok Kumar Arora, Bharat Bhushan Batra, Geeta Bhukkal, Shelly Chaudhary, and Aditya Surjewala, besides INLD MLAs Aditya Devi Lal and Arjun Chautala. "The strongest proof of this scam is that in a year when the crops were damaged and yield declined, the paddy procurement figures of the government are record breaking...Where has this paddy come from? Obviously, from other states...Outside paddy was sold at MSP and our own farmers were left standing outside the mandis," Surjewala said in his separate calling attention notice. In their joint notice, Congress MLAs demanded CBI probe and alleged that fake gate passes were generated at grain markets and that cheaper paddy was brought in from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and shown as locally procured produce using forged documentation....