Telugu Desam Party national president N. Chandrababu Naidu has demanded that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy resign to his post owning moral responsibility for the chaos in the distribution of pensions and the death of a few beneficiaries in Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing the media at Nallajerla in East Godavari district on April 5 (Friday), Mr. Naidu lambasted the YSRCP government for not adhering to the Election Commission of India (ECI) directive on the disbursal of pensions.
“The ECI has only barred the volunteers from disbursing the cash benefits to the existing beneficiaries of ongoing welfare schemes. The regular government employees of the village/ward secretariats can be used for the purpose. There is no bar on them. But the government chose to ask the beneficiaries to come to the secretariats to collect the pension amounts, which led to the death of a few of them due to heat. The government is responsible for these deaths,” Mr. Naidu alleged.
