Hundreds of people led by civil rights activists marched to the Rajasthan Assembly on the final day of its brief session here on Thursday demanding enhancement of pension, supply of cheap ration and widening of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to cover the urban areas. Addressing the demonstrators outside the Assembly, where they were stopped, spoke about impoverishment and vulnerability of large sections of population in the State and called for expansion of the public distribution system beyond the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category.
The marchers were disappointed to learn that the Assembly had been adjourned sine die after the brief vote-on-account proceedings and the Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, and all MLAs had already left.
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