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Minister for SERP and MSMEs Kondapalli Srinivas accused YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of spreading mendacious accusation regarding the State’s pension organisation system.
In a connection connected Friday, Mr. Srinivas alleged that Mr. Jagan was making “baseless and misleading” claims against the government. Terming the allegation that astir six lakh pensions were removed arsenic a “blatant lie,” the Minister asserted that during the YSRCP government’s term, astir 11 lakh pensions had been discontinued.
Under the NDA government, pensions were cancelled lone successful cases wherever beneficiaries passed away. He said the authorities had alternatively expanded payment sum by sanctioning pensions to astir 2.5 lakh caller beneficiaries successful the past 22 months, the Minister said.
Mr. Srinivas said that the YSRCP authorities had spent astir ₹91,000 crore connected pensions during its five-year tenure. In contrast, the conjugation authorities had already spent a grounds ₹63,157 crore connected pensions successful the past 22 months, helium added.
