It will take another 48 hours for the chemical engineering experts to neutralise poisonous Styrene vapour gas that has leaked from the tank of LG Polymers company here killing 12 people and affecting many others.
Police resorted to lathi-charge as hundreds of migrant workers turned violent at Mangalagiri near here on Friday, demanding the authorities send them back to their home states.
The Thursday’s tragic mishap at Visakhapatnam in which 12 people died and many fell sick after inhaling poisonous gas emanated from LG Polymers has brought the port city back into focus and led to the talk whether it is safer to be made as administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh.
Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Andhra Pradesh, who initially made a lot of hue and cry over the tragic gas leak incident at Visakhapatnam that killed 12 people on Thursday, had little to criticise YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday.
It has been nearly an year since Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu lost his power in Andhra Pradesh to YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy with a huge margin.
Not only the film industry, even the political field is ruled by fears and sentiments. There are two strong sentiments in Uttarandhra politics.
Ace film director Puri Jagannath who is fondly called Jagan by his friends in film circle has praised YS Jagan on his decision of giving Rs 1 Cr ex gratia to the families of Vizag Gas leak victims.
BJP leaders Kanna lakshmi Narayana and Vishnu Kumar Raju have appreciated Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's announcement of Rs 1 Cr ex gratia to the families of the deceased in the LG Polymers gas leak mishap at Vizag.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday claimed that it has all the powers to amend the service rules of state election commissioner and former SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar’s term was curtailed only in accordance with these powers.
It is a known fact that YSR Congress party general secretary and parliamentary party leader V Vijay Sai Reddy enjoys a virtual No. 2 position in the party, next only to party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The ex gratia of Rs 1 crore to each of the families of the deceased in poisonous gas leak tragedy of Visakhapatnam on Thursday by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has set a new precedent in the history of not only the state, but also in the entire country.
11 people, including two children, have died while about 300 are hospitalised after a gas leakage from LG Polymers chemical plant in RR Venkatapuram village, Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh today.
With 56 cases detected in the last 24 hours, Andhra Pradesh, on Thursday, reported the lowest daily tally in many weeks.
Utter chaos prevailed at the government-run King George Hospital (KGH) where about 160 people affected by the gas leakage from a chemical plant were brought in early on Thursday.
LG Polymers India, from whose chemical plant in Visakhapatnam the gas leaked early Thursday, is part of the South Korean group LG Chemical and is headquartered in Mumbai.
