Veena George, the Kerala Health Minister, and her supporters keep demanding incontrovertible proof for the claim that the Sikkim government is paying the ASHAs higher sums. In the spirit of extraordinary cruelty towards the poor and the powerless that has been characteristic of the present government in Kerala, the CPM minions online demand that the striking workers find the proof.
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