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Sunday, Jun 27, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Another TDP leader killed

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, JUNE 26. Another Telugu Desam Party leader was hacked to death allegedly by Congress rivals near Penukonda in the district on Saturday, even as the two-member delegation of the Opposition party from Hyderabad was visiting victims of alleged Congress violence at Gotkur village in Kudair mandal yesterday, in which one activist was killed.

The murder of Narasimhaiah (45), the former president of Gasikavaripalli PACS in Bukkapatnam mandal, today has taken the toll of TDP activists' killing allegedly at the hands of Congress rivals to six after the recent elections. He was a close associate of the former minister, Nimmala Kistappa.

According to the police and the relatives of the victim, Narasimhaiah's family has shifted out of the village after the Assembly elections, sensing threat to his life. While his wife and three children were staying at Marala village, he was put up at a relative's place in Penukonda.

Narasimhaiah had been to see his family on Friday night. On Saturday, he alighted from a bus from Marala at Kothacheruvu to catch another bus to Penukonda. His rivals watched that he was travelling alone and they followed him in a jeep to Penukonda, it was alleged.

After alighting from the bus at Madakasira cross in Penukonda he went to a milk vending shop of his relatives. Three youths went to him and told him that a friend of his from Mudigabba was calling him near the jeep. As he came out, the three youths bundled him into the jeep.

They took him 1.5 km away in the jeep and allegedly hacked him to death. The assailants, five in numbers, sped away in the jeep immediately. His body was found by the police, when they came in that direction after they were alerted by his relatives.

The jeep, in which the assailants were learnt to have taken away Narasimhaiah, was later seized by the police at Kothacheruvu. It belongs to a Congress leader.

The former minister, Kistappa, party leaders from Hyderabad, C. Ramachandraiah and K. Kala Venkata Rao, and other leaders of the party visited the body at the Government hospital, Penukonda.

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