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Slain naxal's relatives meet State Home Minister

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Jana Reddy promises education, job for naxal's son

KIN'S CALL: Kanakaiah leaving the Secretariat after meeting Minister Jana Reddy. — PHOTO: P.V. Sivakumar

HYDERABAD: Relatives of the slain CPI (Maoist) state secretary Madhav had an emotional meeting with Home Minister K. Jana Reddy in his office at the Secretariat on Monday.

Consoling Kanakaiah, a brother of Madhav, and the other grief-stricken relatives, the Home Minister renewed his offer to provide proper education and a Government job to Madhav's son, an Intermediate student, who was absent.

Speaking on the family's behalf, Civil Liberties leader K. G. Kannabiran, revolutionary writer Varavara Rao, MRPS president Manda Krishna Madiga and others demanded that the post-mortem of Madhav's body be conducted in Hyderabad.

They also wanted the body to be handed over to the relatives in the State capital itself.

Plea turned down

Mr. Reddy, however, turned down the plea on the ground that it would delay the process.

Instead, he offered that the Government would take the family members to Markapur or Ongole where the port-mortem was proposed to be conducted, and later to their native village in Karimnagar district for funeral rites.

If necessary, doctors would be brought from Guntur for conducting post-mortem, the Minister said.

Gaddar, the noted balladeer who accompanied them, was refused entry inside the Secretariat.

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