Chief minister KCR visits martyred colonel’s family, hands over financial package

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao visited the kin of martyr Colonel Santosh Babu, who was killed in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley after “violent clashes” with Chinese troops. Rao personally handed over the promised financial package and the appointment letter of a Group-I job to Santosh Babu’s wife Santoshi. He had earlier declared the financial package comprising Rs 5 crore, a site for a house and a Group-I job to Santoshi.
 
The CM was accompanied by ministers G Jagadish Reddy, Vemula Prashanth Reddy, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and other elected representatives and officials.