HYDERABAD: Telangana activists created a ruckus for the second day on Tuesday by raising their voice several decibels up even as residents braced for another dose of protests in the form of rasta roko at 100 places on Wednesday.
The main drama, a highoctane one, went on for more than two hours at the RTA office in Hyderabad where activists led by T Harish Rao, Madhu Yashki and Koppula Rajeswar entered into into long altercations with the police when they stopped them at the main gate asking them what right they had when they were going inside to register their protest against Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal's visit to the office a little earlier to provoke Telangana employees. The police had to use force to whisk them away to police stations even as they shouted that the guardians of law were dancing to the tunes of Seemandhra leaders.For a long time, Harish Rao had an altercation with DCP (west zone) Stephen Ravindra. Alleging that the police officer had threatened to handcuff him and take him away to the police station by force if he did not allow him to arrest them, Harish Rao dared him to arrest him and said he did not expect anything more from a police officer who is from Seemandhra taking directions from a government headed by a Seemandhra leader.
The police shifted him and other leaders forcibly from the RTA office to the Banjara Hills police station after deflating the tyres of Harish Rao's vehicle. Another TRS legislator, Koppula Eashwar, alleged that he was trampled upon by policemen while Congress MP Madhu Yashki heaped abuses on the police for trying to suppress the Telangana movement by using force. He also attacked Rajagopal for trying to undermine the Telangana movement.The day began with enough hints of the kind of trouble that was in pipeline . It began at Vanasthalipuram where a substantial number of Secretariat employees from Andhra region live. When they were setting out to go to the officey, protesters stopped their regular bus and tried to force them out. As heated arguments ensued between the two groups, the police entered the scene. Incensed activists broke the window panes of the bus which forced the police to resort to lathicharge. It took some time for the situation to come under control.Meanwhile, Telangana Congress leaders have stayed put at Delhi to make a final appeal to the party high command to announce a decision on Telangana on the ground that the situation in the region is getting out of control and that the party will have to pay a heavy price if it does not act in time.
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