YSR Congress leader Sharmila said late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was instrumental in ensuring that poor people had access to corporate hospitals through the Aarogyasri scheme launched by the then Congress government in 2004.
Continuing her ‘Parmarsha Yatra’ in Amrabad mandal in Mahabubnagar district on Tuesday, Ms. Sharmila gave a call to late Rajasekhara Reddy’s admirers to fight to see that the welfare schemes launched by him reached the needy.
She garlanded the statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Mannanoor before embarking on the yatra in Kalwakurthy constituency. Reaching Amrabad, she garlanded the statue of YSR and addressed the gathering at there and at Achampet.
The YSR Congress leader recalled that but for the initiative of late YSR, poor people would not have dreamt of getting treatment in corporate hospitals. “Lakhs of people have benefited from the Aarogyasri scheme. Similarly, the fee reimbursement scheme saw to it that the needy students continued their education unhindered,” she said.
Stating that the Indiramma housing scheme, 108 and 104 services and free power came as a boon for the poor, Ms. Sharmila said in the five year rule from 2004 to 2009, the Congress government did not enhance power tariff.
In Amrabad, she called on the family of Parvataneni Rangaiah, who died on hearing about the demise of YSR. She consoled Anusuya, wife of Rangaiah.
She was accompanied by YSR Congress Telangana State working president Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy, party MLAs – Payam Venkateswarulu and Tati Venkateswarulu, party seniors Mamidi Shyam Sundar Reddy, Nalla Suryaprakash, Konda Raghava Reddy, Srikanth Reddy, Bissa Ravinder and Y. Kishta Reddy.
