{"id":89614,"date":"2023-01-02T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89614"},"modified":"2023-01-02T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T01:19:08","slug":"3-dead-at-chandrababu-naidu-event-second-stampede-in-less-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/3-dead-at-chandrababu-naidu-event-second-stampede-in-less-than-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Dead At Chandrababu Naidu Event, Second Stampede In Less Than A Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hyderabad:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three women have died in a stampede at a rally of Telugu Desam president and former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Guntur district. This is the second incident in a span of four days that people lost their lives at a public event of Mr Naidu&#8217;s Telugu Desam Party, which has been holding a series of political meetings across the state in preparation for the 2024 assembly elections in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Naidu said the incident was extremely unfortunate and announced a compensation of&nbsp;\u20b9&nbsp;5 lakh for each of the families that have lost their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A top police officer from Andhra Pradesh told NDTV the public meeting had been completed and Mr Naidu had left the venue for his residence when the tragedy took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the public meeting, there was a programme by local Telugu Desam Party leaders to distribute sarees as gifts from Chandrababu Naidu to the women for Sankranti, the harvest festival coming up in two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Some 4,000 women had gathered to get the Chandrababu Sankranti Kanuka. Barricades had been erected, so queues could be maintained. On the other side, dinner packets were being distributed. Suddenly a barricade gave way and the stampede happened,&#8221; the officer told NDTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police chief of Guntur told reporters that enough police protection given to the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;200 policemen and rope parties were deployed.&nbsp; The incident happened because of the barricade collapse at the first counter&#8230; the deputy superintendent of police was on theb spot at the moment and has rescued a few women,&#8221;he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad:&nbsp; Three women have died in a stampede at a rally of Telugu Desam president and former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Guntur district. This is the second incident in a span of four days that people lost their lives at a public event of Mr Naidu&#8217;s Telugu Desam Party, which has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89616,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89614\/revisions\/89616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}