Body of Telangana worker yet to arrive from Iraq

HYDERABAD: Nearly a month after he had died of cancer at Erbil in Iraq, a Nizamabad worker’s body is yet to be sent home. Social workers in Iraq approached the Consulate General of India (CGI) in Erbil to facilitate the transportation of the mortal remains of 46-year-old Parymola Bojanna.
In response to a mail from Naveen Achari, general secretary of Telangana Jagruthi, CGI Erbil said Bojanna’s body would be sent on July 23 or July 25. This, however, did not happen. “We have been informed it would be sent on July 30,” Naveen said. The expenditure for transportation of the body is being borne by Indian community welfare fund.
Bojanna died on June 29. According to a medical report issued by the Kurdistan regional government, he died of lung cancer. He took part in a protest in front of CGI office demanding that he along with others be accommodated on the Vande Bharat flights to India since he was unwell.
He hailed from Dharpally in Nizamabad.
Social workers have also approached the CGI to send the body of 50-year-old Kondagurla Shankar, who died on July 22. Some workers had literally carried an unwell Shankar to the CGI office to show that his condition was critical and that his travel to India should be facilitated. hankar’s family belongs to Jannaram mandal in Mancherial.