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The Vistrutha Dalita Sanghala Aikya Vedika (Vidasam) has alleged favoritism successful the compensation paid to the families of the victims of mysterious deaths astatine Turakapalem successful Guntur territory implicit the past 5 months. They demanded an summation successful the compensation magnitude from ₹5 lakh to ₹.25 lakh.
At a media enactment astatine Ambedkar Bhavan, connected Tuesday, Vidasam State convener Busi Venkata Rao recalled that the State authorities had provided ₹25 lakh ex gratia to the victims of the stampede astatine Tirupati, and said that the little compensation was injustice to the Turakapalem victims.
Referring to the ₹5 lakh compensation handed implicit by Union Minister Pemmasani Chandrasekhar and Prathipadu MLA B. Ramanjaneyulu to the families of each of the victims, helium said that the Vidasam would not tolerate the compensation disparity.
Mr. Rao shared that a squad from Vidasam had visited the affected colony connected September 14 and aboriginal took the household members of the victims’ to conscionable the Collector and question compensation. He added: “The contented was brought to the announcement of the National SC Commission subordinate Ramachandra, who sought details from the Collector connected the issue. This prompted the State authorities to widen compensation of ₹5 lakh hastily.”
He alleged that the deaths were caused by the beingness of E. coli and different harmful bacteria successful the drinking h2o and demanded that the State authorities should instrumentality afloat work of the deaths.
