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Telangana bandh paralyses life in Andhra
The Telangana region faced a shutdown on Tuesday in pursuance to a 48-hour bandh call given by the pro-separate state elements even as more resignations continued to mount pressure on the Congress high command to take a call on Telangana.
As expected, life came to a virtual standstill in all the 10 Telangana districts with public transport, autos and train services staying off while shops and establishments, cinemas and shopping malls remained shut. In Hyderabad too, the bandh was near total with the streets wearing a deserted look and shops downing shutters.
Till late in the afternoon, the bandh was by and large peaceful except for some violence in Osmania University and a stray incident of a private bus being torched by miscreants in LB Nagar. The violence in OU was triggered by rebel TDP Telangana MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy's arrest by the cops when he tried to enter the campus a little before noon. In protest against this, about 100-odd students gathered near Arts College. Anticipating trouble, the police shut the entrance door to the campus on the Vidyanagar side to which the students reacted by pelting stones at the security personnel. Three rounds of teargas shells were fired to disperse the students.
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