A seven-month-old baby girl died at Kalyandurg on Friday night after being unable to get timely treatment allegedly as a result of the district police personnel regulating traffic and barricading all the entry points for the victory convoy of the Women and Child Welfare Minister Usha Sricharan.
Hailing from Cherlopalli village in Shettur Mandal of Anantapur district, a differently-abled person Ganesh and his wife Eerakka were rushing their baby, Pandu, to the RDT Hospital in Kalyandurg Town on Friday evening, but their autorickshaw was stopped by the police personnel and they were asked to take the girl by any other means. As the police personnel did not relent, the baby was carried on a two-wheeler to the hospital at 7.20 p.m. only to be told that it was too late to save her.
The family members then sat on a dharna on the roads before the newly-appointed minister’s convoy was scheduled to enter, but were forcibly evicted by the police. All public transport and other vehicles were allowed only from the outer bypass of the town as the Minister’s “Victory convoy” was coming from Anantapur to Kalyandurg to reach her residence.
