One killed in Khammam, Cong. men beaten up in Guntur

By Our Staff Reporter

KHAMMAM, JULY 13. Police contingents were deployed heavily on Friday in sensitive places affected by post-poll violence in Khammam district.

Eight houses were ransacked as CPI(M) and Telugu Desam workers resorted to a violent confrontation in Gudimalla village in Khammam division. Two Telugu Desam workers - Tammisetty Veeraswamy and T. Rambabu - were attacked by their rivals following which the TDP men retaliated, damaging the properties and valuables in the houses of the CPI(M) workers. In Yellandu town, a group clash resulted in the killing of an auto driver, Sunkara Raju, 25, today. He was stabbed to death in broad day light.

According to a Guntur report, supporters of the former Minister, Dr. Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, beat up several Congress(I) workers, resulting in injuries to four of them, who have been admitted to Narasaraopet Government Hospital.

According to the Additional Superintendent of Police, Mr. A.R. Srinivas, there was a minor altercation between Nalluri Hanumantha Rao of the Congress(I) and Alluri Sreenu (TDP), president of the milk society, in Issappalem village of Narasaraopet mandal on Thursday.

However, both sides did not stretch the issue beyond a point as polling was going on. However, Sreenu went to Nalluri Sambasiva Rao (son of Hanumantha Rao) and provoked him. Efforts of Mr. Sambasiva Rao to close the issue did not bear fruit. As the altercation attained serious proportions, Alluri Sreenu was reportedly attacked with an axe.

Perceiving danger to Alluri Sreenu, his followers raided the house of Sambasiva Rao and attacked his family members. Besides Sambasiva Rao, his father, Mr. Hanumantha Rao, his mother, Kishtamma, and his son, Mr. Ramakoteswara Rao, sustained bleeding injuries.

Soon after the attack, the Congress(I) supporters brought Mr. Sambasiva Rao and his family members to Narasaraopet rural police station and lodged a complaint with the police. Meanwhile, Dr. Sivaprasada Rao went to the police station with over 40 of his followers and had his followers lodge a complaint against Sambasiva Rao and others.

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