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TRS bandh peaceful

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD DEC. 27. The bandh call given by the Telangana Rastra Samiti demanding the legitimate share of Krishna and Godavari waters for Telangana passed off peacefully in Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Adilabad districts on Friday.

No untoward incident was reported from the three districts even as the bandh evoked good response in most of the towns and mandal headquarters. Several people were taken into custody by the police as a preventive measure as they were trying to enforce the bandh in the three districts.In Nizamabad, the bandh evoked mixed response with the shops and business establishments being closed till the afternoon. Petrol bunks, cinema halls, banks and financial institutions remained closed. The RTC buses plied normally and police pickets were put up at important installations. Tyres of three RTC buses were deflated in different parts of the district.

In towns like Armoor, Kamareddy, Nizamabad and Bodhan,shopkeepers and businessmen downed their shutters voluntarily,while in some mandal headquarters the bandh was near total. In mandal headquarters like Morthad, Kammarpalli, Velpur, Jakranpalli, Balkonda, Dichpalli, Bheemgal, Sirikonda, Machareddy, Tadwai, Lingampet, Sadashivnagar and Bhikanoor, where the TRS had captured the sarpanch and ZPTC posts, the leaders went round the main streets in support of the bandh.

The TRS State vice-president, Mukka Devender Gupta, and others were arrested near the bus station when they tried to set ablaze an effigy of the Chief Minister. The ZP chairman, S. Santosh Reddy, TRS general secretaries, Bapu Reddy and Bhupati Reddy, along with the party workers went round the town urging businessmen to observe a bandh. The Superintendent of Police, Shanka Brata Bagchi, said 100 TRS leaders and workers were taken into custody in connection with the bandh.

ADILABAD: The district police took into custody 159 TRS leaders and activists here while they were trying to enforce the bandh. The police picked up 48 workers in Bellampalli sub-division, while 47 were arrested in Mancherial sub-division. In Adilabad sub-division, 41 TRS workers were arrested while 12 and 11 were caught in Kagaznagar and Nirmal sub-divisions.

Normal life was not disrupted in the district but shops and business establishments were closed till noon. The RTS buses plied normally. Banks, petrol filling stations, cinema halls and schools remained open.

KARIMNAGAR: The bandh evoked partial response in Karimnagar district but a number of arrests were affected by the police. The Karimnagar ZP chairman, K.V.Rajeswara Rao, and a number of leaders were arrested near the RTC bus station while they were trying stop the buses from coming out. The bandh evoked a mixed response in Jagtial, Metpalli, Korutla, Vemulawada, Sircilla, Peddapalli, Huzurabad and Jammikunta towns.

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