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Scores injured as TDP, YSRCP activists clash
Tension gripped Kurlapalle village in Kanaganapalle mandal as activists of the Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress clashed late on Monday night. The politically volatile constituency of Paritala Sunitha witnessed clashes and pelting of stones against each other and scores of party activists from both sides were injured and admitted to the government hospitals at Anantapur and Dharmavaram on Monday
​Anantapur: Tension gripped Kurlapalle village in Kanaganapalle mandal as activists of the Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress clashed late on Monday night. The politically volatile constituency of Paritala Sunitha witnessed clashes and pelting of stones against each other and scores of party activists from both sides were injured and admitted to the government hospitals at Anantapur and Dharmavaram on Monday midnight.
Clashes reoccurred at the hospital when YSRCP leader Topudurthi Prakash came to the hospital to console his party activists. His presence provoked clashes between the party activists once again in the hospital ward. The attackers used the iron stands used for fixing saline bottles to attack each other. The police rushed to the hospital and took YSRCP leader Prakash into custody and those involved in ransacking the hospital ward.
- The two warring groups rained blows on each other and in the resulting melee, the hospital ward was ransacked
- Police take YSRCP leader Prakash and others into custody
Meanwhile, the YSRCP leaders including former MP Anantha Venkatarami Reddy and Uravakonda YSRCP MLA Vishveshwara Reddy and hundreds of party activists squatted in front of the SP office premises on the road demanding action against the ruling party leaders responsible for the attack on their party activists both in the village and at the hospital.
They maintained that the YSRCP activists were being targeted by the ruling party leaders. The party activists were forcibly evicted by the police. Police have registered cases against those involved in the clashes. Meanwhile, Civil Supplies Minister Paritala Sunitha welcomed Atmakur ZPTC member Kulayappa, who quit the YSRCP and joined the TDP fold, at a meeting here on Tuesday.
She said that Kulayappa's entry into the party would further strenghthen the party and bring unity in Atmakur mandal. Reacting to the incident of clashes which occurred in her constituency on Monday night, she regretted that the YSRCP workers had chosen to attack her followers.
They had gone to the extreme of attacking the TDP workers even in the hospital, she added. Sunitha said that she did not believe in physical attacks against political rivals and hoped that the YSRCP leaders would refrain from such attacks in future.
