YSRCP youth secretary hacked to death in Vinukonda 

The Capital News 
 A YSRCP youth secretary was hacked to death in Vinukonda, Guntur district. The deceased was identified as Rasheed. The incident took place on the main road of the area and was caught on camera by nearby bystanders. According to police, Sheik Jilani (25) hacked Sheik Rashid to death in the middle of the road at Mundlamuru bus station in Vinukonda, Palnadu district, around 9 pm on Wednesday.

However, the local police noted that there was ‘nothing political’ in this incident but 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,” said police.

Palnadu Superintendent of Police K Srinivas Rao noted that the crime scene would be reconstructed today, followed by the arrest of Jilani under Section 103 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Reacting to the murder, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSRCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged that there is no safety for people’s lives under the TDP government. Rebutting Jagan, the TDP claimed that Jilani was a follower of the YSRCP chief and called on the former CM to ‘stop supporting’ the murderer.

The party asserted that Palnadu’s Superintendent of Police had ‘denied any political connection to the cold-blooded murder’ that took place in Vinukonda. “The killing is purely on personal issues and no political party is involved in the murder,” said the TDP in a release, quoting Srinivasa Rao