[/caption]News and photo courtesy-The Hindu
Use of force:Protesting women activists of the TDP being physically lifted by police from the Secretariat premises on Thursday.
HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam workers resorted to road blockades throughout the State on Thursday in support of the indefinite hunger strike being observed by their leader N. Chandrababu Naidu seeking a better relief package for farmers.
Hundreds of party workers in various districts showed their solidarity with their leader by organising rallies, rasta-rokos, stopping of trains and a sit-in by TDP legislators on the Andhra-Maharashtra border national highway in Adilabad, holding up vehicles for several kilometres.
In the twin cities, party workers organised motor cycle rally to Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences which was foiled by police. Telugu Mahila members staged a dharna in front of the Secretariat for half-an-hour and later they were forcibly taken away in a van to Nampally police station.
In Adilabad, TDP activists, moving in batches, staged rasta-roko several times to keep the police on bandobust duty guessing. Many workers in bullock-carts led by Adilabad MLA Jogu Ramana stopped vehicular movement on the four-lane highway at Mavala junction. Soon after another batch halted the flow of traffic at Chanda (T) junction. However police took them all into custody.
Mixed response to bandh
In Guntur, the bandh call given by TD supporters evoked mixed response from public. Incidents of stone pelting on RTC buses, partial damage to an RTC bus in Vinukonda mandal when it was set on fire were reported in the district.
Over a dozen party activists, including ex-MP Lal Jan Basha, were taken into custody after they tried to block Guntur-Repalle passenger train at the Guntur Railway station.
In Karimnagar, traffic came to a grinding halt for several hours following the road blockades at several places led by local legislator G. Kamalakar.
In Ongole, over 50 party workers of TD and Left parties were taken into preventive custody when they blocked traffic on the arterial Chennai-Kolkata highway in different places.
In Vizianagaram, vehicular movement was disrupted on Visakhapatnam-Vizianagaram –Rayagada road. A ‘rail roko' agitation was organised at Anantapur railway station with party activists squatting on the rail track led by MLA Palle Raghunath Reddy.
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