Andhra Pradesh

Guntur district

Guntur

Farmer's unnatural death sparks protests in Andhra 00:40

కొండవీడులో ఒక బీసీ(ముత్రాసి) రైతు, కోటయ్య గారిని మీరే చంపేశారు ముఖ్యమంత్రి గారూ @ncbn. కొట్టి కొనఊపిరితో వున్న రైతు… https://t.co/MONCzZkFma — YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (@ysjagan) 1550556228000

Telugu Desam Party

Pix of helipad made on farmer Kotaiah's land

What is the price for refusing to allow chopper landing of AP CM Chandra Babu Naidu in AP? Death! Yes, a farmer w… https://t.co/2IJ4tIpJrq — BJP ANDHRA PRADESH (@BJP4Andhra) 1550593055000

A farmer inof Andhra Pradesh was found dead under suspicious circumstances in his own farm. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu came under attack by all the major opposition parties on charge that Koteswara Rao alias Kotaiah was tortured to death bypolice for refusing to give his land at Kondaveedu in Guntur district to make temporary helipad for the CM.While the BJP wrote to the Union Home Minister seeking a central probe into the tragedy, the YSR Congress party instituted a three-member fact finding committee. The BJP and YSR Congress alleged Kotaiah was badly beaten up by police for objecting to felling of papaya crop in his two-acre land for the helipad. Naidu attended a cultural programme in the village.Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan demanded an independent probe into the tragedy.The CM, on the other, condoled the unnatural death of the farmer and announced Rs 5 lakh financial assistance to the bereaved family. He said the police would bring out the truth.The rulingmaintained that the farmer had resorted to the extreme due to 'family disputes'.The Guntur district police, however, maintained that Kotaiah had committed suicide due to personal reasons.District superintendent of police Rajasekhara Babu said land was used for setting up a temporary police control room only with the consent of Kotaiah. The crop was damaged when the police carried Kotaiah in unconscious stage through the field to hospital. He contended that Kotaiah had consumed pesticide four hours before the CM's scheduled arrival.BJP AP president K Lakshminarayana alleged that the police had poured pesticides into Kotaiah's mouth to cover up the death due to torture as a case of suicide.