3 workers from West Bengal killed at construction site in Nilgiris district
Coonoor (Tamil Nadu) (PTI): Three migrant workers engaged in construction work were killed here on Saturday after mounds of sand and portions of a retaining wall fell on them, officials said.
When workers were engaged in digging the ground for construction purposes in a residential premises, all of a sudden heaps of sand rushed down on them and portions of a retaining wall collapsed and fell on them, trapping the workers.
Other workers on the site and local people alerted the police, fire and rescue services personnel and they brought out the three workers from the sand heaps and they were rushed to a government hospital here.
However, hospital authorities declared them brought dead.
The deceased were young men aged between 22 and 36 and they were identified as Abdul Rahman, Naseer and Usman.
The residential premises where the construction work is going on fall under the Jegathala Town Panchayat limits in the Nilgiris district.
A probe was launched following registration of a case, police said.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
