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Have sent a letter to the drug control administration requesting an investigation into this. If this was due to a bad batch of medicine, then the batches should be tracked and urgently recalled If it wasn't that, then improper dosage could be the most likely explanation. Chloroquine has to be dosed based on body weight and giving the same dose (higher) to a ten year old and a 5 year old can have tragic results Hopefully the andhra pradesh govt prioritizes transparency in the interests of public health. And publishes a full report on what happened, and how we prevent this from happening again and also holding the concerned parties accountable I am not a public health expert and i might be dead wrong on this, but I think giving chloroquine tablets to tribals as a prophylactic instead of as a treatment when diagnosed is quite problematic. Perhaps mosquito nets/repellents should be the first goto strategy. Anyway will wait for a full report by the Andhra Pradesh govt If any public health experts/doctors reading this, please do let me know your thoughts

Yesterday we launched the book "Chattam" which is a telugu translation of ''The Law" written by Frederic Bastiat, the french economist. After that we held a press meet in Vijayawada to expose the rampant corruption and illegal activities by what we call 'Jagan Lokesh Mining Companies'. Today we have a private company hiring thugs to setup checkposts and extort farmers, and normal citizens who have nothing to do with mining activities. The scale of the corruption, involvement of the ruling party as well as the opposition party and the brazen extortion is bound to shock anyone who hasn't come across this yet. I will share the link for the press conference where we have exposed with evidence : videos, receipts and other documents what's going on. We appeal to Andhra citizens facing harassments that the actions and extortion by this private mafia has no legal basis and it is perfectly constitutional to use self-defense in response to any such extortion attempts. We have setup a helpline number for anyone who is facing harassment and extortion by these thugs. Our expose was covered in many local regional tv channels, print and also by the Indian Express I will do a space on this, if anyone is interested in hearing this insane story about how the govt created something like a Mini East India company in Andhra Pradesh

We announced a meeting in Navluru village on 18th to highlight the problems many plot owners were facing , because the govt literally stole their land, gave it for road building and said we can't give you compensation as our records show this is govt land (It wasn't. this is part of the pattern of govt stealing people's land by 22A notifications) Now these villagers have been running from pillar to post for more than a decade to get their lands cleared from 22A. in 2024, the administrative authorities pretty much closed their file saying in our records it is under 22A Now these villagers approached us due to our property rights campaign. And we announced on the 16th evening that day after tomm i.e the 18th, we will have a meeting on this in Navluru village and meet the victims. Within a few hours, the entire district machinery swung into action(Since this was Nara Lokesh's constituency). Calls from MLAs and party workers to the affected people threatening them not to attend our meeting. they also circulated one notice saying the govt has cleared their problems. They claimed that they had issued this notice last week but due to some reasons they were waiting to tell people 🤡 So more than a decade and half of people have been suffering but the GO is produced exactly the night before our meeting. Funnily the PDF metadata shows that the document was printed on 17th August 7pm Still people turned up on 18th. And we are happy that we are able to tighten the screws and force the goverment to do the work they were elected to do! Now the second funny part is that, after our meeting, the video of which is available on youtube, the YSRCP media (Saakshi news) put out news saying our team member ABV has made a statement in the meeting that Jagan's govt is 100 times better than CBN/TDP government. No such statement or even anything similar to that was made. So not a question of misrepresentation, it is absolute fabrication As libertarians we don't want to file defamation lawsuits, and so we have sent out a letter to Saakshi news asking them not to publish fake news and retract their fabricated news content.