: Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly and YSR Congress president Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy warned on Friday that he would launch an agitation in Guntur if the State Government did not take action on the builder responsible for the accident, pay Rs. 30 lakh as compensation and allot five acres of land to each family.
Addressing media persons after consoling the families of seven young men who were killed in an under construction site at Lakshmipuram at SC Colony here, Mr. Jagan alleged that the State government had not fulfilled any of its promises made to the families. He said that compensation under insurance and the Workmen Compensation Act was yet to be paid to the victims’ kin.
Mr. Reddy spent a considerable time talking and consoling the families of seven young men at SC colony.
Arriving in a long convoy of vehicles, Mr. Jagan waved to the crowds that have gathered on the narrow road leading to the colony. He was accompanied by former MLAs Mekathoti Sucharita, Ravi Venkata Ramana, and former Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao.
Mr. Reddy visited the houses of Jonnagaladda Prasanth, Battula Sunil Kumar, Solomon, Rajesh, Seshu Babu, Sudhakar and Rakesh.
