‘Welfare Schemes Aren’t Freebies’

The South India times, Hyderabad: TS legislator Kalvakuntla Kavitha today reacted to recent statements of BJP leaders on what they call “freebies for votes”. “Welfare schemes for poor people are not ‘freebies’. Waiving loans of dupe agencies are actual freebies,” said the Member of Legislative Council (MLC) from the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS). She was apparently responding to a wave of BJP statements, starting with PM Narendra Modi’s comments last month.