Provide ₹ 2,500 each to ration cardholders, Panneerselvam tells TN government
The Hindu
The move to stop the payment of cash gifts to people, would amount to letting down those who had voted in the elections, the AIADMK leader said in a statement
AIADMK coordinator, O. Panneerselvam, on Thursday demanded that a sum of ₹ 2,500 be paid in cash to each ration cardholder, in connection with the Pongal festival on the lines of what his party, while in power, did early this year.
Referring to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s , Mr. Panneerselvam, in a statement, recalled that during the AIADMK regime, an amount of ₹ 1,000 was given to each of the cardholders for the 2020 Pongal festival and ₹ 2,500 for 2021. The allocations made then were ₹ 2,363 crore and ₹ 5,604 crore respectively. But, now, this had been reduced to ₹ 1,088 crore only.
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