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The government’s temporary cash assistance program (BLSM) – ostensibly to cushion the poor against the inflationary impact of the recent subsidised fuel price hike – has been branded as mere pork barreling, as ministers with no connection to the scheme scramble to be seen distributing largesse among voters ahead of next year’s elections.