Support pouring in for Sharmila’s Padayatra

Hyderabad, Oct15, 2012: Forum for the rights of the handicapped and the Rural Development Society for the Deaf announced their solidarity to the Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra to be undertaken by Sharmila, sister of YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy from Oct 18.

Disclosing this to newspersons here on Sunday, Kolli Nageswara Rao, president of the forum, said it was YSR who introduced the scheme of pension to the handicapped first.

He called upon the 10 lakh handicapped persons in the state to attend the Yatra of Sharmila who has decided to walk the long distance of 3000 Km to highlight the public issues and the failures of the Government.

Taking a dig at TDP president N.Chandrababu Naidu’s announcement he will grant a monthly pension of Rs.1000 each to the handicapped, Nageswara Rao said it is ridiculous on part of Naidu to make the statement.

“When Naidu failed to offer even Rs.75 per month as pension, how can we believe his statement on Rs.1000 pension to the handicapped?” asked Nageswara Rao.

Nageswara Rao said Chandrababu has not spared time to console the family members of a handicapped person who was killed in the stampede during his padayatra and demanded a compensation of Rs.10 lakh to the affected family.