Call that Contractor Nagaraju.
Nagaraju Koppula(1980-2015): He paid the price for not giving up.
So all of us together decided to compromise," says Nagaraju.
But none of these attempts were by Ali or Nagaraju.
Ration cards with Ali's(left) and Nagaraju's(right) photos, along with photographs of persons they don't know.
He shows me the list of persons on the family's ration card- Nagaraju's name is missing.
Barre Nagaraju(centre), a fish workers' leader,
says the project will adversely affect the 40,000 people in his community.
Mr. Nagaraju said they discussed about the case
and also the development activities in the constituencies they represented.
At Venkatanarayna Palli hamlet, not far from Thummala, V. Nagaraju's name has also disappeared from his ration card.
When I retrieved these cards from the‘Print Ration Card' section of the website,
the cards contained names that neither Ali nor Nagaraju know.
The ration shop in Kurnool, where both Ali's and Nagaraju's Aadhaar details had travelled,
was shut down in 2017 because of allegations of corruption;
Many of us cannot afford to
send our children to school without the scholarship,” says Nagaraju Kusini, 25, who too had to leave school.
The MRO, P. Subbalakshumma,
though says that only in a few instances like Ali's and Nagaraju's, errors may have occurred because of wrong
digits mistakenly punched in by the operators.
Among the passport-size photos of six people(four on
ration cards linked to Ali's Aadhaar and two on Nagaraju's) were photos of Ali and Nagaraju(from their Aadhaar cards)-
the others Nagaraju couldn't identify.