The TDP holds the Jagan administration responsible for a stampede that claimed three lives.
Amaravati: Despite party chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s “deep sorrow and anguish” over the tragedy, the Telugu Desam Party blamed the Andhra Pradesh government for the stampede event that occurred in Guntur city on Sunday night and resulted in three women’s deaths and seven other injuries.
While the state government offered a relief of Rs 2 lakh each, Naidu announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 5 lakh each to the family of the deceased. TDP leader K Ravindra promised to provide the family of the deceased an additional Rs 2 lakh apiece and the injured individuals an additional Rs 1 lakh each.
Another TDP leader Mannava Mohana Krishna announced a further relief of Rs three lakh each to the kin of those killed.
Three women were killed in the stampede at some of the stalls in a public ground in Guntur where a non-governmental organisation distributed “Sankranti Kanuka” (gift) to poor families.
The TDP president attended the event and the tragedy struck a few minutes after he left the venue.
TDP state president K Atchannaidu blamed the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government for the tragic incident as it failed to provide adequate security.
Is it not the police’s duty to make sure there is enough security and appropriate crowd management where a former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition is present? It appears that the Jagan administration is endangering people’s lives in order to play the victim card, said Atchannaidu in a statement.
He claimed that following the terrible tragedy, the YSR Congress ran a disgusting social media campaign and certain ministers’ response raised questions about the ruling dispensation’s wicked intentions.
In a separate statement, Naidu expressed his outrage at the stampede and deaths of the underprivileged.
“It is quite regrettable. I went to the event to support a nonprofit group that works to aid the underprivileged. I’m very sorry about it It came to a tragic conclusion, said the former chief minister
