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| Hyderabad News |
The Telangana region faced a shutdown on Tuesday in pursuance to a 48-hourbandh 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.
In the meantime, the day began with more resignations. TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao representing Mahabubnagar constituency, whose resignation was demanded by many other leaders from the region, faxed his letter to Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar around midnight while his fellow party colleague from Medak Vijayashanti faxed her resignation to the speaker around 9 am on Tuesday. By the evening, the 11 TRS MLAs are also likely to submit their resignations to deputy speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
The day also saw the TRS and other Telangana activists target those ministers and MLAs from the region who did not submit their resignations, in particular Danam Nagender, Mukesh Goud, Marri Shashidhar Reddy and P Shankar Rao, all of whose residences in the city were turned into fortresses. But unable to bear the heat, textiles minister Shankar Rao faxed his resignation to the deputy speaker by noon.
Even as New Delhi put up an impression of taking the issue a bit more serious, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana independently held talks with senior officials while senior police officials were monitoring the law and order situation across the Telangana region.
In New Delhi, after their near-two hour meeting with AICC general secretary in-charge of AP Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday morning, the group of Congress MPs and MLAs said they have been told to stay put for another round of talks after Azad discusses the situation with the Congress top brass. As a result, the stalemate on the vexed Telangana issue continues.
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.
In the meantime, the day began with more resignations. TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao representing Mahabubnagar constituency, whose resignation was demanded by many other leaders from the region, faxed his letter to Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar around midnight while his fellow party colleague from Medak Vijayashanti faxed her resignation to the speaker around 9 am on Tuesday. By the evening, the 11 TRS MLAs are also likely to submit their resignations to deputy speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
The day also saw the TRS and other Telangana activists target those ministers and MLAs from the region who did not submit their resignations, in particular Danam Nagender, Mukesh Goud, Marri Shashidhar Reddy and P Shankar Rao, all of whose residences in the city were turned into fortresses. But unable to bear the heat, textiles minister Shankar Rao faxed his resignation to the deputy speaker by noon.
Even as New Delhi put up an impression of taking the issue a bit more serious, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana independently held talks with senior officials while senior police officials were monitoring the law and order situation across the Telangana region.
In New Delhi, after their near-two hour meeting with AICC general secretary in-charge of AP Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday morning, the group of Congress MPs and MLAs said they have been told to stay put for another round of talks after Azad discusses the situation with the Congress top brass. As a result, the stalemate on the vexed Telangana issue continues.
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