YSRCP opposes Aadhar linkage: Vasireddy Padma

Hyderabad, Nov 20: Demanding the TDP government to withdraw its proposal to link free power scheme with Aadhar cards, YSR Congress has said that it would stand by the farmers in the protest against such anti-people policies. “The government’s proposal is against the Supreme Court ruling that no welfare scheme should be linked with Aadhar card but the TDP Government is trying to downsize the welfare measures to fit the meager budgetary allocations by indiscriminately cutting down the number of beneficiaries,” party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters. The proposed move of linking free power to agriculture with Aadhar cards will downsize pump sets by 40 % which will be a blow to rural economy and will further add misery to the already burdened farmer. The anti-farmer policy of the State Government will be questioned and will be taken up at the December 5 dharna at Collector offices state wide along with other anti-people policies of the State, she said. The paradox lies in the fact that it was the same Chandrababu Naidu who expressed his opposition to linking welfare schemes to Aadhar cards while he was in the opposition and after assuming power has taken a U-turn in a bid to tally the paltry budgetary allocations with the welfare schemes by downsizing them drastically, she said.