The stage on which a set of Telugu Desam Party leaders were seated for a public meeting late on Friday evening collapsed due to heavy winds, at Bathulavarigudem in Nuziveedu mandal of Eluru district.
During the speech of former Deputy CM Nimmakayala Chinarajappa, the stage collapsed due to heavy winds and the leaders and activists fell.
Chintamaneni Prabhakar, Peethala Sujatha, Chinarajappa, Maganti Babu and others were among those who fell.
TDP Nuziveedu constituency incharge Venkateswara Rao organised the meeting with the slogan, ‘Guarantee to the AP Future.
’ Several senior TDP leaders participated in a rally at Nuziveedu followed by the public meeting at Bathulavarigudem.
Former deputy chief minister and Peddapuram MLA China Rajappa, former minister Peethala Sujatha, former MLA Chintamaneni Prabhakar, former MP Maganti Babu, Venkateswara Rao and other leaders were present on the dais.
When China Rajappa was holding forth, the stage collapsed all of a sudden.Rajappa fell down from the stage.
Other leaders on their chairs too sank along with the stage.Several of them suffered injuries and some have fractures to their bones.
Rajappa, in his speech, was explaining how the state government headed by Jagan Reddy hiked power charges while the prices of essential commodities have also gone up abnormally.The women were deeply concerned over this, he said.
As soon as the dais collapsed, the TDP cadre among the audience rushed forward and rescued the leaders.
Rajappa later told reporters that he rushed with mild injuries to Rajamahendravaram for treatment in a private hospital.
The other leaders were admitted to a private hospital at Nuziveedu.
