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Hyderabad: An army of 2.56 lakh volunteers, which the Jaganmohan Reddy government recruited soon after coming to power in Andhra Pradesh in 2019, is under the Election Commissions scrutiny following charges of doubling up as agents of the ruling YSR Congress Party...
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Jana Sena Party (JSP) are opposed to the volunteer system from the outset, alleging that the grass-roots network intended for the last-mile connect, door service delivery, assistance and grievance redressal is actually meant to serve the YSRCPs political interests...
Acting on a complaint of NGO Citizens for Democracy, the poll body last week stated that the volunteers are kept out of the election duties and passed orders that pensions or other government welfare handouts should not be disbursed through them till the MCC is in place i.e., first week of June...
As the YSRCP started attacking him, Naidu wrote to the CEO and Chief Secretary asking that pensions be still distributed at doorstep by deploying the village/ward sachivalayam staff and other government employees as deemed fit...
While Jagan has set up a department for volunteers and village/ward secretariats, some MLAs with the YSRCP were reportedly annoyed over their lowered involvement in selection of beneficiaries, disbursal of benefits...
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