Jagan ridicules CM’s ignorance on non-payment of pensions

Sadum (Chittoor dist): Ridiculing the revelation of Chandrababu Naidu that he came to know about the non-payment of pension only now, YSR Congress President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said that it was a matter of shame if the Chief Minister realised in the penultimate year of his term about the anomaly and demanded that the four-year arrears should also be paid to the pensioners.

Addressing a gathering as part of the Praja Sankalpa Yatra here on Friday, the Leader of Opposition said, ‘it is unbecoming of a Chief Minister if he says that he has no knowledge of the non-payment of pensions. As it was an election promise, the TDP government should pay the pension with arrears from 2014 which would benefit the poor.

The power has gone into the head of Chandrababu Naidu as he has been resorting to headstrong comments like one should be ashamed if they do not vote for TDP. He cannot tell one good reason as to why people should vote for him after he broke all the promises made during elections. 

Though he had promised various sops during elections in the power and transport sectors, he hiked power charges and RTC bus fares three times in the four years, and he expects that people would vote for him, Jagan said.

Education, medicare, pensions, housing, agriculture, employment and all sectors shown a fall and were seen moving southward in the graph, he said, adding that all sections of people have been bearing the brunt of his deception and were going back on the promises made, he said.

The loan waiver to farmers, DWACRA groups, unemployment stipend, housing, pensions, Special Category Status (SCS) everything had come to naught. His late realisation about pensions reminds people of the state about a previous anecdote.

History reminds us that when NTR had promised Rs 2-kg-a-rice, the ruling party announced that it would provide rice at Rs 1.90 but people have seen through the game and rejected the party in power. In the same manner the gimmicks of Chandrababu Naidu would not work, he said.