"Welfare Schemes Aren't Freebies": Telangana Rashtra Samiti Leader Kavitha Hits Out At BJP
NDTV
Legislative council member Kalvakuntla Kavitha accuses Centre of pressure to stop schemes in Telangana, where her father is Chief Minister
Telangana legislator Kalvakuntla Kavitha today reacted to recent statements of BJP leaders on what they call "freebies for votes". "Welfare schemes for poor people are not ‘freebies'. Waiving loans of dupe agencies are actual freebies," said the Member of Legislative Council (MLC) from the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS).
She was apparently responding to a wave of BJP statements, starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments last month.
"In Telangana, we have around 250 welfare schemes that are being run for poor people," said K Kavitha, whose father K Chandrashekhar Rao is the Chief Minister. "It is our responsibility as a state government."
She said the BJP-led central government is "putting pressure on the state government to stop these schemes". "We're against this behaviour," said the former MP. "I request the intelligentsia of the country to rise to the occasion and oppose this atmosphere that is being generated in the country today."
