Karimnagar: A TSRTC employee Karim Khan died of cardiac arrest in Karimnagar town on Wednesday. This takes the number of RTC employees who died of heart attack in the last one month to eight. Apart from this, three RTC employees have committed suicide during the RTC strike.
Karim Khan was working a mechanic at Karimnagar-II bus depot.
According to the family members of Karim Khan, he was suffering from mental agony following Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s tough stance on the RTC strike.
When asked about the death of RTC employees, Mr Chandrasekhar Rao refused to own up the blame. “TSRTC workers who have committed suicide are not my responsibility. They are responsible for themselves. We did not ask them to protest. Unions provoked them,” the Chief Minister said addressing a press conference on October 25.
Karim Khan’s son Mohd Assad Khan wondered how many more people have to make the Chief Minister a positive decision on the RTC strike.
Making the matters worse for the RTC staff, the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday resolved to issue permits for a total of 5,100 routes being operated by the RTC to private operators,
