Hyderabad, March 24 -- Opening a Pandora's box of mistakes being made in identifying beneficiaries for overseas scholarships and other scholarship schemes for SCs, STs, BCs, EBCs, and minorities, AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi alleged that wealthy individuals have been enjoying government benefits at the expense of the poor.

Speaking in the Assembly during the discussion on the demand for grants for the welfare of SCs, STs, BCs, minorities, women and child welfare, and the disabled on Monday, 24 March, he claimed that people living in large houses, owning cars and multiple motorbikes, were availing themselves of scholarship schemes.

"I'm only saying that rights need to be given to the rightful people. I stand here to protect the r...