Both the ruling TDP and opposition YSRCP have been making charges against each other over the party affiliation of the person, who murdered a 25-year-old youth in Vinukonda on Wednesday night. While TDP is stating that both the victim and also killer were followers of a key YCP goon in the city, YCP alleging that the killer was a TDP activist.
YCP that has been alleging that TDP cadre have been resorting to violent attacks against their activists and their properties across the state for the last one month after formation of Chandrababu Naidu government, is making a move to take political advantage of this incident.
YCP chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who was in Bengaluru has suddenly reached his Thadepalli palace after knowing about this incident on Thursday and is planning to visit Vinukonda to boost morale of his party cadre.
According to police, Sheik Jilani (25) hacked Sheik Rashid to death in the middle of a road at Mundlamuru bus station at Vinukonda in Palnadu district around 9 pm on Wednesday.
However, the local police strongly denied any political incident in this murder, but attributed it to only personal enmity between the two. “There was no political issue. There were only personal issues between the two persons (Rashid and Jilani). Rumours are being circulated and some people are projecting it as a political murder,” a police official said.
Palnadu Superintendent of Police K Srinivas Rao noted that the crime scene will be reconstructed on Thursday, followed by the arrest of Jilani under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Jaganmohan Reddy alleged that a “demonic reign” is prevailing in the southern State, bereft of law and order. He lamented that there is no safety to people’s lives under the TDP government. He deplored that the state has turned into a den for murders, rapes, political vendetta and attacks in just 45 days of the new government assuming power.
Terming the Vinukonda murder as a shame to the TDP-led government, Reddy alleged that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and other persons are perpetrating these atrocities.
Rebutting Reddy, the TDP claimed that Jilani was a follower of the YSRCP chief and called on the former CM to “stop supporting” the murderer. “The killing is purely on personal issues and no political party is involved in the murder,” said the TDP in a release, quoting the SP.