Samaikyandhra Joint Action Committee activists were taken into preventive custody at the airport here on Sunday evening.
They raised slogans and tried to submit a memorandum with placards in hand to APCC president Botcha Satyanarayana, according to JAC convener A. Kishore Kumar. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was to make a transit halt at the airport en route Hyderabad from Rajahmundry.
Seven activists were taken into custody and were later brought to the Fifth Town police station.