Police on Wednesday launched an investigation after a YSRCP supporter by a vehicle of party president and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
The 55 -year -old Cheli Singaiya died when he slipped and fell in front of the vehicle trying to bathe flowers on Jagan. According to officials, the front right wheel of the vehicle went to the man’s neck.
Guntur Superintendent of Police Satish Kumar said that police and YSRCP supporters took him to a nearby hospital and later Guntur Government Hospital, but died.
Initially, it was thought that Singaiya was injured after climbing and falling down on a vehicle in Jagan’s convoy, but his video was crushed under the vehicle in which Jagan was traveling, went viral on social media.
Singaiya was a resident of Vengalayapalem village and went to congratulate Jagan with flowers. The incident occurred when Jagan was returning after visiting Rentapalla village in Palanadu district, where he went to console a former sarpanch’s family, who died of suicide, allegedly due to police harassment.
Singaiya “Unfortunately fell in front of the convoy and had gone”, SP Kumar said.
On the same day, another YSRCP supporter, 30 -year -old P Jayawardhan Reddy, collapsed and died in a scuffle of Jagan supporters near Sateenpalli Clock Tower. He was declared dead in Guntur Government Hospital.
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Due to a placard organized by a YSRCP supporter, Jagan’s visit to Palanadu had already become controversial, causing a game of police case and a political defect.
Placard organized by YSRCP activist T Raviteja on Wednesday said: “When YSRCP comes to power in 2029”, and below that, “Rapa Rapa Narukuta”. The Telugu word Pushpa 2 was part of a line distributed by Allu Arjuna. It translates “to cut them, one -to -one”.
Police in Palanadu said that they registered a case against Ravita.
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister vs Anita accused Jagan of encouraging such “violent” statements.
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Jagan defended the placard and said that it was not to be violent and asked, “So, now you can’t even give a line from a film?”
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