Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has alleged that instead of keeping its pre-poll promises of introducing several new welfare schemes and enhancing the benefits in the existing schemes, the Congress Government in the State has resorted to a peculiar and inhuman move to recover Aasara pension amount from a large number of beneficiaries.
In a statement, Mr. Rama Rao said on Saturday that the Revanth Reddy Government had taken to serving notices on the Aasara beneficiaries asking them to deposit the money credited to their bank accounts citing various technical and petty reasons.
Citing an example, he pointed out that the government had served a notice earlier this week on an 80-year-old woman Dasari Mallamma in Bhadradri Kothagudem district living in Kothagudem town to repay ₹1.73 lakh paid to her an old-age pension within a week stating that she was sanctioned dependent pension in 2017 after her daughter, who worked in Health Department, passed away and was not eligible for Aasara pension.
Mallamma was not the only beneficiary of the Aasara scheme who received such notices but there were thousands of others across the State. He suggested the government stop such inhuman acts or else the people would revolt against the government sooner than later.
