Andhra Pradesh: YSRCP accuses man allegedly associated with ruling TDP of killing its worker
The police said that the worker was killed following a failed real estate deal and not because of political rivalry.
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YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday accused a person allegedly associated with Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Telugu Desam Party of killing his party’s worker in the Palnadu district on Wednesday.
The state’s Opposition party also shared a purported video of the alleged incident showing the victim, Sheikh Rashid, being assaulted by a man who has been identified as Sheikh Jilani, reported The Indian Express.
The assault took place on a road near the Mandlamandi bus station. Jilani continued to strike Rashid with a knife even after he fell to the ground. Rashid was bleeding profusely, the newspaper reported.
“Within a month and a half of the new government taking office, Andhra Pradesh has become synonymous with murder, rape, political vendetta, and destruction,” Reddy alleged in a social media post. “Yesterday’s heinous murder in Vinukonda is an example of this. The Andhra Pradesh chief minister [N Chandrababu Naidu] and other responsible officials are promoting such atrocities with clear political malice.”
The former chief minister also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to address the “deteriorating law and order situation” in the southern state.
“I express my deepest condolences to the family of Rasheed, who was hacked to death by those associated with the TDP in Vinukonda,” Reddy said.
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