On New Yr’s Day, three ladies have been killed and a number of other others have been injured in Andhra’s Guntur district as numerous individuals rushed to obtain presents at a Telugu Desam Occasion (TDP) occasion, resulting in a stampede. The incident occurred lower than every week after eight individuals died in a stampede at one other TDP rally in Nellore district. Within the Guntur incident, one lady died on the spot and two others succumbed to accidents whereas being shifted to a hospital, in response to Andhra Pradesh Well being Minister Vidadala Rajini. 

Individuals had reportedly arrived to obtain ration and garments within the type of Sankranti Chandranna Kanuka (ration equipment) and NTR Janatha Vastralu (garments together with sarees) to low-income households. A police official stated that as quickly because the organisers began distributing presents, the group swelled and so they pushed the barricades away, resulting in a stampede. The present distribution started after TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu left the venue upon addressing a public assembly at Guntur. 

A girl who has been admitted to the hospital instructed reporters that they got a token-like slip earlier within the day and so they went to the venue of TDP’s assembly to gather presents. Out of the blue there was loads of rush and within the melee, individuals fell to the bottom, resulting in accidents and fatalities. In keeping with stories, the beneficiaries have been made to attend for a number of hours past the time introduced for the present distribution. 

Expressing shock over the incident, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy introduced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to these injured within the stampede. The TDP in the meantime has introduced monetary support of Rs 5 lakh to every of the bereaved households. The ruling YSRCP has blamed the TDP for each stampede incidents, alleging that the social gathering has mismanaged the occasions for publicity, whereas the TDP has blamed the ruling social gathering alleging that it failed to offer enough safety on the occasions. 

On Sunday, Well being Minister Rajini alleged that the TDP campaigned for the previous 10 days to woo individuals, assuring the distribution of presents. “Three lives have been sacrificed for Naidu’s publicity mania,” she instructed reporters on the hospital the place the injured are being handled in Guntur. Although this was a personal programme, the state authorities supplied sufficient safety, she stated. “Chandrababu Naidu ought to come clean with the duty for the deaths,” Rajini stated.

Guntur East MLA from YSRCP Mohammad Mustafa squarely blamed Naidu for the incident. “I request the state authorities to cease these type of actions as a result of they (TDP) are enjoying with individuals’s lives. We simply noticed the incident in Kandukuru (Nellore),” the legislator stated.

After the December 28 incident in Kandukuru through which eight individuals died, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated he was pained by the mishap and introduced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to these injured. The state authorities additionally introduced comparable compensation for the victims.

YSR Congress Occasion common secretary and advisor to authorities (Public Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, in an announcement, had blamed TDP and its chief Naidu for the tragic incident. Addressing the media on December 29, he stated Naidu “intentionally” held the rally in a slender lane to be able to seize the visuals via drone pictures to point out an enormous crowd for his assembly. Nonetheless, Naidu’s “self-promotion mission” failed miserably and led to the “homicide” of eight harmless individuals whereas injuring a number of others, he had alleged.