Telangana supporters stage road blockade on Hyderabad highway

TRS, BJP and other pro-Telangana organisations on Thursday began a 'Sadak Bandh' (road blockade) onA the Hyderabad-Bangalore Highway in support of the separateA statehood demand even as police denied permission for it. Leaders and workers of TRS, BJP and other organisationsA tried to enforce the blockade since morning by squatting onA the roads. The blockade is being carried out from MahabubnagarA district, neighbouring Rayalaseema region, to Hyderabad. TheA 'Sadak Bandh' supporters chose various places on the highway to enforce the agitation. Police, which made elaborate security arrangements,A detained some of the protesting leaders and took them away toA enable normal traffic resumption. TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is in Delhi toA attend the Parliament session condemned the alleged arrests ofA the leaders and activists and demanded their immediate