Published Sep 07, 2022 | 5:32 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 07, 2022 | 5:33 PM
K Kavitha, Telangana MLC and the daughter of Chief Minister KCR, meets Aasara pension beneficiaries in Nizamabad on Wednesday, 7 September (Twitter/@RaoKavitha)
Telangana MLC K Kavitha on Wednesday, 7 September, tore into the BJP for its attempt to wind up welfare schemes on the pretext that they would hurt the health of the economy.
The legislator and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), addressing a public meeting after meeting new Aasara pension beneficiaries in Nizamabad, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to help his corporate friends plunder the country.
“The prime minister helped the corporates rob banks of ₹12 lakh crore, but he does not want to help the poor and the infirm who need support from the government,” she alleged.
Kavitha said that at a time when the state government was planning to help people with more welfare schemes or to enlarge the scope of the existing ones like pension to two persons in a house, Modi wanted the state to shelve Asara, fee reimbursement, Shadi Mubarak, Kalyan Lakshmi, KCR kits, and so on, which were helping the people lead a life of dignity.
The former MP of Nizamabad said that KCR believed that the state could not move forward if the people remained impoverished. That was the reason he was providing succour to them, she said.
“If the people are happy, the state’s health would be fine,” she said, recalling how KCR ensured that there was no break in the implementation of the welfare schemes.
“He did not stop Asara, or supply of rice or power supply to the people, as he knows that essential services need to go on regardless of the problems a state faces,” she said.
PM’s photo pasted on gas cylinders in Telangana. Their prices have been constantly rising (Twitter/@krishanKTRS)
Taking a swipe at Nirmala Sitharaman for insisting that a picture of Modi be displayed at ration shops, Kavitha said it only showed how small-minded the Union finance minister was.
Nowhere in the country does any shop have the image of the prime minister, she said.
“Since the Union finance minister wants pictures of Modi displayed, we will surely do it — on urea bags, LPG cylinders, in petrol bunks, and so on,” she said.
