Harish Rao 'Congress cheated differently-abled persons'

BRS Deputy Floor Leader T. Harish Rao accused the Congress government of betraying persons with disabilities by failing to fulfil its election promise of providing a monthly pension of Rs 6,000. He said the government owed each beneficiary around Rs 66,000.

Addressing the Samara Shankaravam meeting at Hastinapuram in the LB Nagar constituency on Saturday, Harish Rao said Telangana had around 5.11 lakh



persons with disabilities.

“If the promised monthly pension of Rs 6,000 had been paid for the past 33 months, each beneficiary would have received around Rs 66,000,” he said.

He reminded the Congress government of its other election promises, including free bus travel, reservations in local bodies and filling backlog posts. Not a single backlog post had been filled, he alleged.