NEW DELHI: Ahead of the assembly elections in Assam, the BJP on Friday again took up the issue of corruption in the north-east, this time submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil in which it alleged a Rs 63,000 crore scam in developmental work being carried out in the region.

Party president Nitin Gadkari appealed to President Pratibha Patil to direct the authorities to carry out a detailed investigation into the "loot".

Gadkari led a delegation to Rashtrapati Bhawan to hand over to Patil a memorandum on the issue as also a copy of the party's report on scams in the north-east.

The report claimed that if the level of corruption in the region was quantified, it could be to the tune of Rs 63,000 crore. "The scandals in the north-east have broken all records...there is a scam in PDS due to which poor are not getting their quota of rice which is sold in Bangladesh," said Gadkari, adding that the report was based on evidence collected using RTI.