Two TDP workers stabbed to death

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, JULY 11. Two workers belonging to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were stabbed to death by their rival group in Abburajupalem village of Tullur mandal around midnight last night. The murders, which are political in nature, assumed significance as local body elections are held on Thursday in the district.

According to police, the TDP activists - S. Kanakaraju (30) and S. Ramesh (25) - were attacked and were stabbed in their abdomen killing them instantaneously. The police said that S. David and S.Thomas - sons of Sarigala Inyasi, sarpanch of Abburajupalem village - joined the Congress (I) and were campaigning on behalf of the party. They reportedly asked Kanakaraju and Ramesh to take part in the election campaign on behalf of the Congress (I). However, Kanakaraju and Ramesh did not oblige them. This led to an altercation between both sides and culminated in the killing of the duo supporting the TDP.

The villagers said that the murders were committed in front of a church in the village. The dispute between the TDP and the Congress (I) in the village, which had been simmering for the last four months, got aggravated in the last week. The Congress (I) group was being led by one Yadlapalli Sivaiah in the village. Incidentally, David and Thomas were the followers of Sivaiah.

The bodies were immediately shifted to the Tullur primary health centre and subsequently to Government General Hospital in Guntur. Kanakaraju's a wife, Rani, who was wailing inconsolably, said that her husband turned a deaf ear to repeated requests not to indulge in politics. She has two children.

Devamani, wife of Ramesh, said that she, too, had been pleading with her husband not to take active role in the poll campaign on behalf of any political party. She also has two children.

The suspected assailants - David and Thomas - are at large. The Guntur rural Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr.S.D.Goutham, rushed to the village and set up a police picket in the village.

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