Telugu Desam Party government has been resorting to gross discrimination in disbursing compensation to the families of fire crackers mishap victims in East Godavari district.
Apparently, the government was under the impression that the victims and their families had not voted for the TDP in the last elections..
This was pointed out by YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who called on kin of fire cracker mishap.
He alleged that the TDP government had no uniform policy for ex-gratia and should not use it for publicity or political means.
“The State should announce a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the deceased member and an adequate amount to those injured as per the established norms and not according to the whims and fancies of the Chief Minister,’ he said after consoling the affected people in the blast that took place at a local firecracker manufacturing unit.
For announcing the compensation, the Chief Minister has his own yardstick and varies from place to place and incident to incident though the loss of human life is common in all the places. This has to be condemned and the publicity monger in him deciding the amount of compensation is bad governance and discrimination, he said.
