The Andhra Pradesh government has found itself in the middle of a controversy after it surfaced that oil packets supplied by the Guntur district administration to victims of the Krishna flood in Kolluru mandal had expired on 16 July.
Staging a protest, local women who had received the packets, demanded that the district administration take back the oil packets and give them a fresh batch. “We will fall sick if we use this (expired oil). We are already suffering due to the flood. The district administration should visit us and take steps to rectify this mistake,” one of the women told a local media outlet.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former Minister Nara Lokesh took to Twitter to criticise the YSRCP government, stating that it did not take the issue seriously. “They are playing with the health of the public by supplying stale oil packets to flood victims,” he tweeted, alleging corruption in the supply of the oil packets.