Hyderabad: BRS Working President K.T. Rama Rao expressed strong reactions to a notice issued by Kothagudem Municipality to an elderly woman, Dasari Mallamma, asking her to return the pension amount received under the Aasara scheme.
The municipality declared Mallamma ineligible for the pension and demanded the return of Rs 1.72 lakh she had received so far.
KTR posted the notice on social media, condemning the Congress government for reducing existing schemes and making false promises of new ones. He described the move to reclaim the pension from an 80-year-old woman, who is a stroke patient and lives alone, as inhumane.He demanded the immediate withdrawal of the notice, warning that the government would face public backlash otherwise. (INN)