Tension prevails at Devarakonda Area hospital in Nalgonda
After completion of autopsy of the nine victims of the road accident, police tried to shift the bodies to their native place, Chinthabai Thanda, in Devarakonda mandal. The BJP members, however, squatted on the road and blocked the vehicles from moving.
Nalgonda: Tension prevailed at Area hospital in Devarakonda when BJP members staged a protest demanding Rs 25 lakh ex-gratia to families of victims of Angadipet road accident.
After completion of autopsy of the nine victims of the road accident, police tried to shift the bodies to their native place, Chinthabai Thanda, in Devarakonda mandal. The BJP members, however, squatted on the road and blocked the vehicles from moving. They displayed placards that said “We want justice” and demanded RS 25 lakh ex-gratia to the families of the nine victims.
Nine persons including seven women died in the tragic accident and 13 others, all of them women, were injured when the seven-seater autorickshaw they were travelling in collided head-on with a container truck on Thursday. All of them were agriculture labourers returning home after the day’s work. Among the deceased was also the seven-seater driver, his wife and mother.
When police tried to forcibly remove the BJP members, relatives of the accident victims also protested and expressed their ire. In view of the sensitive situation, the police allowed them to continue with their protest for an hour. Meanwhile, the DCM carrying the bodies of the victims was taken out from the rear gate of the hospital and proceeded to Angadipet.
Emotions ran high when the vehicle reached Chinthabai Thanda, which has just 152 houses. The entire village was enveloped in grief with hundreds of relatives crying inconsolably.
Earlier, Telangana State Legislative Council Chairman Gutha Sukender Reddy, Energy Minister G Jagdish Reddy, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy, BJP district leader Kankanala Sridhar Reddy and Devarakonda MLA Ravindra Kumar Naik visited the mortuary at the area hospital and consoled the family members.
Rs 3 lakh ex-gratia
Jagdish Reddy announced that the government would pay ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh to families of each victim besides allotting a double bedroom house to them. The State government will foot the bill for the education of the victims’ children. The State government, he said, will also extend all possible help to dependents in these families besides providing the best treatment to those injured.
Conveying condolences to the family members of the victims, TPCC president said that the Congress would extend total Rs 4 lakhs as an immediate financial help to seven families of road accident victims.
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