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Hyderabad on boil as Telangana march
begins amid clashes
Sunday September 30, 2012 04:04:09 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: Tension gripped Hyderabad Sunday as pro-Telangana
activists clashed with Andhra Pradesh Police while hundreds of
people were reaching the venue of the rally - Necklace Road on the
banks of Hussain Sagar lake - to participate in the march for a
separate state.
Police burst teargas shells to disperse protestors who tried to
remove barricades and advance towards NTR Marg.
Police twice arrested ruling Congress party MPs from Telangana who
staged a sit-in in front of the Chief Minister's Office to protest
large-scale arrests of people coming to Hyderabad while a section
of state cabinet ministers from the region threatened to quit.
The cancellation of dozens of trains and buses in Telangana region
and the arrests of hundreds of protestors reaching the state
capital in private vehicles angered the pro-Telangana groups, who
alleged that the government was trying to suppress the movement
despite giving permission for the march.
Armed personnel from Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) para-military
force were deployed at the chief minister's camp office in
Begumpet when the Congress MPs and their supporters reached there
again after their release.
They squatted on the road as the police refused them permission to
go inside the chief minister's residence-cum-office to meet him.
The eight MPs were bundled into police vehicles and taken away.
Senior minister K. Jana Reddy spoke to Chief Minister N. Kiran
Kumar Reddy over phone to lodge his protest over the government
not keeping its word on allowing the peaceful march. He said the
time had come for the ministers from the region to decide whether
for them the posts were important or Telangana.
Several parts of the city resembled battle zones with police
sealing off the routes around the secretariat, the Chief
Minister's Office and other vital high-security areas.
Legislators of opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were also
arrested in front of the assembly building as they blocked the
traffic in support of the march.
With fears of protestors targeting vital installations and the
properties of people from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, the
police and paramilitary forces sealed off many roads with police
chief Dinesh Reddy himself monitoring the situation from a
helicopter.
Osmania University, the nerve centre of the movement for separate
state, turned into a battle zone with students clashing with
police. Students wanted to take out a rally, but were stopped by
police at the main gate of the campus.
Raising slogans of 'Jai Telangana', the students removed
barricades and pelted stones at the police personnel. Although
police fired teargas shells, hundreds of students were still
present on the campus, determined to take out a rally.
Police said that permission was given only for the march at the
Necklace Road and that they would not allow any other rally.
Telangana protagonists from various parts of Hyderabad and
neighbouring districts started reaching the venue on the bank of
Hussain Sagar lake in the heart of the city since Sunday morning.
Protestors were trying to take out rallies to reach the Necklace
Road.
There was also tension at Secunderabad Clock Tower as leaders and
activists of CPI-ML New Democracy were prevented by police from
taking out a rally.
The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), Telangana Rashtra
Samithi, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and various organisations of
students, employees and lawyers also planned to take out rallies
from various places in the city to join the main march at the
Necklace Road.
JAC convenor M. Kodandaram and leaders of other parties condemned
what they called the government's conspiracy to foil the march by
cancelling trains and buses from various parts of Telangana to
Hyderabad.
They alleged that hundreds of people coming to Hyderabad from
various districts were arrested by police.
"On one hand the government has given permission for the march but
on the other it is resorting to repressive measures," said
Kodandaram.
He said said the repressive measures proved that the government
was afraid of the mass movement.
Another Telangana leader and state legislator, N. Janardhana Reddy
warned that if the government tried to foil the march, they would
disrupt the UN global biodiversity meet opening in the city
Monday.
Revolutionary balladeer Gaddar reached Telangana Martyrs' Memorial
at Gun Park and administered a pledge to protestors that they
would achieve the goal of separate state. "The arrests can never
stop the movement," he said.
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