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Make list of welfare pensioners public: CPI (M)

Fact-finding mission: CPI (M) activists collecting details of eligible persons who were denied sanction of old age pensions and houses in ‘Indiramma’ divisions during a padayatra in Anantapur on Tuesday.

ANANTAPUR: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday demanded that the district administration make the list of pensions sanctioned in the first and second phases of Indiramma scheme in the district headquarters town. There were large-scale irregularities in the selection of beneficiaries, the party alleged.

Speaking during the party’s padayatra on the second day, town secretary V. Rambhupal alleged that they were ready to prove that a number of pension cards were in the custody of some officials and politicians of the ruling party.

The Congress leaders who were claiming of giving pension to every eligible person could know the truth, if they visited the town. They would make public the list of officials and politicians who were siphoning of funds sanctioned as pensions to the aged, widows and physically handicapped persons once the officials made the list of beneficiaries public. The CPI (M) leader invited the ruling party leaders to participate in their padayatra to learn the woes of aged persons who were denied pensions in the divisions selected under first and second phases of Indiramma scheme.

The ruling party leaders could also know the ineligible persons getting the pensions if they accompanied the padayatra, Mr. Rambhupal said. Maintenance of roads and sanitation was worst in the town, he noted. Party corporator P. Prasoona, P. Peddi Reddy, A. Manohar and others participated.

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