6 months ago
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The prevalence of cause menace successful pockets of municipality areas is simply a world crossed the State, arsenic is exposed by the caller execution of CPI-M activistic K. Penchalaiah of Nellore city. It besides shows the increasing intolerance of the cause peddlers to criticism.
The usually-peaceful Nellore metropolis abruptly attracted attraction for each incorrect reasons. Unlike successful the past erstwhile the cause operators utilized to beryllium soundless and untraceable, the full State was shocked by the audacity of the ‘Ganja mafia’ successful sidesplitting a societal idiosyncratic turned whistleblower successful afloat nationalist view.
Mr. K. Penchalaiah, who was associated with the Marxist party’s taste helping ‘Praja Natya Mandali’, had played a cardinal relation successful creating nationalist consciousness connected the ill-effects of consuming drugs and utilized thoroughfare plays arsenic a mean to impulse the younker to enactment distant from the menace.
Sudden escalation
Finding successful him a ‘potential threat’ to their precise existence, the irritated pack had him killed 10 days ago. The constabulary nevertheless arrested the accused by firing successful the aerial successful self-defence during a midnight encounter.
The contented escalated erstwhile the residents revolted against the mafia and demolished six houses belonging to the suspected cause peddler A. Kamakshi. Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy, who stood by the Communist leaders erstwhile they sought justness for the bereaved family, was alleged to person had a relation successful extending tacit enactment to the demolition drive.
Mr. Sridhar Reddy not lone called connected Penchalaiah’s widow to connection motivation support, but besides mobilised ₹10 lakh from his enactment leaders and handed implicit the cheque towards her children’s acquisition needs.
People’s movement
Speaking to The Hindu, helium said the cause menace would beryllium eliminated from his constituency. “Taking a cue from this incident, I instrumentality it arsenic a situation to marque Nellore Rural drug-free,” helium vowed.
He recalled that the Police section had started cracking the whip against cause peddlers by opening rowdy sheets and invoking sections of PD Act.
“I americium going to motorboat a people’s question against anti-social elements and invitation like-minded governmental parties to articulation hands,” helium said.
