Thursday, January 17, 2008

Spate of protests by TRS


HYDERABAD: Activists of the TRS held up road and rail traffic at several places in Telangana in protest against the announcement by AICC general secretary Veerappa Moily that the Congress was actively considering constitution of the second States Reorganisation Commission to go into the demand for separate Telangana. They detained the New Delhi-bound AP Express at Kazipet railway station in Warangal and a passenger train at Ghatkesar in Ranga Reddy district for a brief while.

Mock funeral


R. Satyanarayana, an MLC of TRS, led a mock funeral to symbolise the end of Congress at Sangareddy in Medak district. Later, the participants burnt an effigy near the Collectorate. Traffic came to a standstill following a ‘rasta roko’ on the Rajiv Rahadari near Pregnapur elsewhere in the district. TRS activists gheraoed Rajya Sabha member of Congress Nandi Yellaiah at a government programme at Gudikandula village of Thogutta mandal in the same district. Rasta rokos were also held in Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Bhongir, Suryapet, Mahbubnagar, Warangal, Jangaon and Khammam towns. The party supporters went round Warangal town on two and four wheelers. MLA Naini Narasimha Reddy led a demonstration at RTC crossroads in Hyderabad.

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