Tension prevailed in Kuppam and surrounding areas of Chittoor district on Friday, following the alleged suicide of a senior YSRCP leader, Parthasarathy (51), who was also former chairman of local Tirupati Gangamamba temple, which is scheduled to celebrate its annual “jatara” (mass festival) in a couple of weeks.
The annual event, notorious for animal sacrifice, draws a crowd of about six lakhs at the tri-State junction.
While Parthasarathy ended his life by jumping before a train on the outskirts of Kuppam on Thursday morning, a video of him blaming “three scribes” and “one person” for his extreme step appeared late at night, and went viral, leading to a tense atmosphere.
