AIADMK leader Sellur Raju slams CM Stalin for not visiting Kallakurichi hooch tragedy victims
Jul 03, 2024
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 3 : AIADMK leader Sellur Raju has slammed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin for not visiting Kallakurichi hooch tragedy victims and reiterated his party's demand for a CBI investigation into the incident.
Raju also accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of a double standard in asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit violence-hit Manipur while not asking Stalin to visit Kallakurichi victims.
"Last year, more than 20 people died after consuming illicit liquor in Villupuram and more than 60 people died in Kallakurichi recently. In this regard, when the Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Edappadi Palaniswami, tried to speak, he was not allowed to do so," Raju told ANI.
"Till now, MK Stalin has not met the victims of the Kallakurichi tragedy but Rahul Gandhi asks why Modi has not gone to Manipur yet. Rahul Gandhi didn't ask Stalin why he did not go to Kallakurichi. We demand the CBI investigate the Kallakurichi case."
According to the latest figure from the administration, the death toll in the tragedy is 65.
Currently, two people are undergoing treatment at Kallakurichi Government Medical and Hospital.
Six people are undergoing treatment in Puducherry, eight in Salem government hospitals. Presently, 16 people are undergoing treatment in total.
The NCW had earlier taken suo motto cognizance of a media report on the deaths of people in the incident and constituted a three-member inquiry committee, led by NCW Member Khushbu Sundar, to look into the matter.
A three-member delegation of the National Commission for Women, led by Khushbu Sundar, visited the families of victims who lost their lives by consuming spurious liquor in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi district.
Earlier on June 28, the NDA delegation comprising BJP leaders Anil Antony, Arvind Menon, and MP GK Vasan today met with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes Chairman, Kishore Makwana, to submit a memorandum regarding the Kallakurichi (Tamil Nadu) illicit liquor tragedy.
They appealed to the Chairman to ensure that the families of the Kallakurichi spurious liquor tragedy victims receive adequate compensation and justice.
The memorandum called for urgent intervention to secure justice for the scheduled caste victims of the Kallakurichi spurious liquor consumption tragedy.
AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, along with party workers, sat on hunger strike, demanding a CBI inquiry into the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy and the resignation of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin over the "inefficiency of the DMK government".
