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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The council meeting held here on Wednesday witnessed heated debate over irregularities surfaced in the survey to identify ineligible welfare pension beneficiaries. BJP councillor Girikumar recalled instances where a beneficiary who sold vegetables on push cart was declared as having a car.Mayor V K Prasanth told the council that 700 applications have been received so far seeking survey results. 1,532 persons were declared as dead and 935 persons were reported as owning car. BJP parliamentary party leader MR Gopan said that it was a criminal offence to declare a living person dead. "It is a known fact that of the 70,000 odd beneficiaries there would be clearly some ineligible people..