Not even the few hours passed that the police encountering the Red sandalwood smugglers, the incident created a rivalry among two states.
It is well known that from the past few days, the Police, Forest and Task force departments have been trying their best to avoid any illegal activities in Tirupati Seshachalam forest zone. At last, On Tuesday they were attacked by few smugglers in the forest, but within no time 20 of the smugglers were shot dead in the encounter.
When the news is out that the smugglers were killed in a cop's encounter, many local people applauded the police, but the actual problem arised later.
Tamilnadu government opposed this incident saying that all the 20 people who were shot dead by police were not smugglers but normal laborers who belonged to Tamilnadu. Basing on this, all the leading politcal parties condemned it very seriously.
Especially, the CM of Tamilnadu Mr.Panneerselvam was deeply hurt by the incident and demanded a strong explanation from the state. Vaigo, MDMK party chief went much more violent saying to attack Andhra Bank branches in their state. He further said "We know that the AP Police have every right to arrest and prosecute offenders, but killing them like birds is unacceptable".
These are just few oppositions from few important leaders of the state, but the list will be much more high if every leader's version is taken into consideration. Most of the leaders felt that without proper information how can anyone kill a common person.
But here, the thing to be taken into consideration is, according to the Tamilnadu officials, if at all, the 20 smugglers who were shot dead were just labourers of Tamilnadu but not smugglers, then what is the need for them to visit AP's forests. Though if this point is omitted, the second most crucial point is, if they are not smugglers, why should they initiate the attack actually.( It should be noted that it is smugglers who attacked on police first but not cops).
If Tamilnadu officials take these points into consideration, then there's no way that they can oppose AP police. So lets wait for their turn now.
