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Shutdown evokes partial response
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Hundreds of activists of Congress, TDP, BJP, YSRCP and Left parties were arrested across the State for trying to enforce Telangana Bandh on Saturday. The bandh call was jointly given by Opposition parties demanding payment of crop loan dues in one go, and was partial in Telangana.
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The bandh sponsored by the Opposition parties remains largely peaceful across the State; top leaders held at various places for trying to stop buses from plying
Hyderabad: Hundreds of activists of Congress, TDP, BJP, YSRCP and Left parties were arrested across the State for trying to enforce Telangana Bandh on Saturday. The bandh call was jointly given by Opposition parties demanding payment of crop loan dues in one go, and was partial in Telangana.
Opposition leaders hit the roads from 5 am. TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee chief Danam Nagender, former PCC chief Ponnala Lakshmaiah and CPI leader K Narayana reached the MGBS bus station to stage a dharna but were arrested by the police personnel deployed there.
Similarly, TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and other Congress leaders and BJP MLA K Laxman were arrested outside Ranigunj bus station. At Jubilee Bus Station, T TDP leader Errabelli Dayakar Rao, T TDP working president A Revanth Reddy,
BJP MLA Chintala Ramachandra Reddy and others were taken into custody and taken to Bolarum police station. In Dilsukhnagar, BJP national secretary N Indrasen Reddy was arrested while Leader of Opposition in Council Md. Ali Shabbir was whisked away from Mehdipatnam bus station.
The Telangana bandh evoked partial response in Hyderabad with the TSRTC buses running normally, but the situation was different in the districts,
where the state-run transport buses were off the roads. Left party leaders, including CPI State Secretary Chada Venkat Reddy and CPI (M) State Secretary Tammineni Veerabadram staged a demonstration at RTC X cross.
In Khammam, leaders of the opposition parties laid siege to bus depots in Khammam, Bhadrachalam and other places.Bandh was enforced peacefully in Karimnagar with large participation of the Congress, TDP, Left parties, BJP and the YSRCP leaders. The bandh call given by the opposition parties evoked a mixed response in Medak and Adilabad districts.
The bandh was total in Siddipet. The Congress, TDP, BJP, CPI, CPI (M) and YSR Congress party workers demonstrated before the bus depot. In Sangareddy, former Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha and former MLA Jayaprakash Reddy took out a bike rally and tried to stage a rasta roko when they were arrested.
In Warangal, the bandh was total and peaceful amid tight security. Police arrested leaders from all opposition parties when they tried to lay siege to Hanamkonda and Warangal bus stations.
According to TSRTC, it had run 350 out of 656 services in Mahabubnagar, 420 out of 470 in Adilabad, 270 out of 543 in Nizamabad and 660 out of 714 in Warangal, 445 out of 566 in Nalgonda, 170 out of 336 in Ranga Reddy, 200 out of 743 in Karimnagar, 180 out of 459 in Khammam and 380 out of 461 in Medak by afternoon.
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