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Hyderabad: Telengana region--Hyderabad and nine other districts--remained tense on Wednesday night with fresh protests erupting near Osmania University as Pro-Telangana agitators pelted stones on buses and demonstrations broke out in different towns. Authorities rushed additional police reinforcements and braced for the 48-hour bandh called by the TRS angered over the Centre's latest statement on the Telangana statehood issue calling it an act of betrayal. TRS is spearheading the campaign for a separate state from Andhra Pradesh. The protesters threw stones at RTC and private buses plying near Osmania University campus and Tarnaka area damaging its windowpanes, though police personnel immediately rushed to the area and used mild force to disperse the agitating groups. Hundreds of students raising 'Jai Telangana' slogans took to streets and resorted to road-blockades near Osmania University, Tarnaka-cross roads and Tarnaka fly over and on way towards Uppal. Anticipating more trouble security was beefed up at important locations in the city with deployment of additional security forces, a senior police officer said. "Protesters pelted stones on some buses near Tarnaka and Osmania University here. Security has been enhanced at the Osmania University campus and other locations and additional forces have been deployed in view of the protests," Hyderabad City Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao siad. Alleging that the Centre with its latest statement "betrayed" on its previous announcement on initiating process for formation of Telangana, pro-Telangana supporters resorted to demonstrations and burning effigies at Warangal, Karimnagar, Medak, Nizamabad, Adilabad and Nalgonda districts of Telangana region. |
