Police have made elaborate arrangements to prevent any untoward incident in the light of the various students organisations and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)’s proposed rally to the state Assembly on Thursday demanding separate statehood for the Telangana region.
Over 2,000 persons were taken into preventive custody and checkposts were erected both on the outskirts of the state capital and also on all roads leading to Assembly. Section 144 was imposed prohibiting assembly of five or more people.
The health condition of TRS president, K Chandrasekhara Rao, who was on a fast-onto-death, further deteriorated as his hunger strike entered the 11th day on Wednesday He, however, rejected the pleas to break his fast.
The state Assembly was adjourned in the morning for the second consecutive day without transacting any business as the TRS legislators stalled the House proceedings demanding that a resolution should be passed seeking separate statehood for Telangana.
Chief minister, K Rosaiah, stressed the need to observe restraint but to no avail. He later left for Delhi to convey birthday greetings to the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi.