Students of the Sri Krishnadevaraya University (SK) in Anantapur where they fought pitched battled with police on Tuesday, were confined to the campus by police on Wednesday.
Armed policemen in large numbers were posted at all the entrance gates of the campus and students were not allowed to come out to the nearby national highway.
Meanwhile, activists supporting a unified Andhra Pradesh picketed and later locked the offices of the Divisional Railway Manager preventing employees from entering.
Fast enters third day
In Anantapur the indeffinite fast by the three MLAs, Paritala Sunitha, B.K.Parthasaradhy, Palle Raghunath Reddy and two other leaders entered the third day. A large number of people thronged the hunger strike camp in a show of solidarity.
The Clock Tower has become the scene of hectic political activity with scores of sympathisers of the movement gathering opposite the platform where the fasting leaders were seated. Another MLA, Venkatarama Reddy, commenced an indefinite fast in his home town Dharmavaram.
Telugu Desam Party politbureau member Kalava Sreenivasulu and Nannapaneni Rajakumari, MLC, were arrested by the police when they tried to enter the SK university campus to meet the students.
