Cooking gas scheme invites sparks from poll panel

The Election Commission has sought a clarification from many LPG dealers in five poll-bound states

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), an important programme of the Narendra Modi government, has spelt trouble for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or cooking gas) dealers in the five poll-bound states, as the Election Commission (EC) has sought a clarification from many of them.
 
This is happening even as state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation have put pressure on dealers for meeting targets under PMUY. In a letter to a distributor in Uttar Pradesh, that Business Standard got access to, one of the companies even threatened to cancel the dealer