Toxic cough syrup: Kamal Nath finally comes to his home constituency, 40 days after first kid’s death

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and record nine-time Congress Lok Sabha Member from Chhindwara, Kamal Nath, finally managed to take out some time on Sunday and reached Parasia in his home constituency to meet the families of the deceased kids who have succumbed to kidney failures suspected due to the consumption of the now-banned toxic cough syrup ‘Coldrif’.

- GAURAV CHANDRA

Kamal Nath came to Chhindwara 40 days after the first child’s death, which had occurred on3 September, following which, around 25 kids have succumbed to date.

Nath, along with his former Chhindwara Lok Sabha Member son Nakul Nath, came from New Delhi to Chhindwara by a special

plane, which landed at Chhindwara’s Imlikheda airstrip.

From there, the father-son duo boarded a helicopter and reached Parasia, where the bereaved families had been assembled at the Utsav Marriage Lawn to meet the two leaders.