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Botsa dares Raghavulu to prove anomalies

Special Correspondent

CPI (M) survey on Indiramma scheme

B. Satyanarayana

HYDERABAD: Housing Minister Botsa Satyanarayana has challenged CPI (M) State secretary B. V. Raghavulu to accompany him to villages to verify his allegation that “Congress workers and ineligible persons” constituted 30 to 40 per cent of the beneficiaries under Indiramma housing programme.

Mr. Satyanarayana also offered to take Mr. Raghavulu to the latter’s native village Mopadu in Kandukur mandal of Prakasam district to ascertain whether all eligible families were not covered.

Wild allegation

At a press conference here on Wednesday, the Minister said the CPI (M) leader had neither toured the villages extensively nor interacted with beneficiaries as claimed by him, but hurled a wild allegation at the Government.

Reacting sharply to Mr. Raghavulu’s letter to the Government, he remarked that it was yet another cock and bull story from the CPI (M) leader. Meanwhile, the APCC too expressed willingness to visit villages in the constituencies represented by CPI (M) to verify allegations of irregularities in the implementation of Indiramma housing programme.

It has advised Mr. Raghavulu to observe restraint in making allegations against the housing programme that was aimed at benefiting the poor. “The criticism reflects the CPI (M)’s apprehensions about its survival once the programme is implemented,” APCC spokesmen N. Tulasi Reddy and M. Kodanda Reddy said.

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