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Opposition bid to lay siege to Inter board foiled
Many Cong, TDP, TJS leaders were kept in house arrest
Hyderabad: The City police foiled the Opposition parties' bid to lay siege to the Inter board as all key Congress, TDP, TJS leaders were house arrested even before they reached the board's office.
The BJP student wing ABVP's bid to barge into Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's residence - Pragati Bhavan - was also thwarted by the police.
Anticipating a big trouble, heavy police forces were deployed at the Inter board in the morning.
Besides, the police took several Congress leaders into preventive custody even before they came out of their residences.
The police arrested former ministers G Geeta Reddy and Mohammad Ali Shabbir and whisked them away to nearby police stations.
Similarly, senior Congress leaders like Ponnam Prabhakar, V Hanumantha Rao, Manavata Roy and former MLA Kuna Srisailam Goud were also taken into custody.
CPI state secretary Chada Venkat Reddy and TTDP state president L Ramana were also arrested at their residences and sent to nearby police stations.
Special police were also deployed and did not allow Telangana Jana Samithi leader M Kodandaram from coming out of his residence.
The District Congress Committee presidents were also taken into custody when they resorted to dharnas.
As part of the agitation, student activists from the ABVP staged a dharna at Pragathi Bhavan.
However, they were prevented from entering the promises as the police arrested many students and shifted them to the Begumpet police station.
The police also foiled BJP state president K Laxman's bid to launch an indefinite hunger strike at the party head office.
He was shifted to NIMS, where he is continuing his hunger strike.
Speaking to the media, BJP national general secretaries Ram Madhav and P Muralidhar Rao said the party national leadership has given them the approval to fight the issue of Inter results fiasco until justice is delivered to the students.
Rao criticised the state government for suppressing the voices demanding justice and declared that the party will continue its agitation.
Meanwhile, the Congress leaders addressed a letter to Telangana State Election Commissioner V Nagi Reddy urging him to issue directions to the police for the release of all the Congress leaders, including MPTC and ZPTC candidates, who have been kept under the house arrest.
They complained to the SEC that the Congress leaders were arrested with an intention to prevent them from taking part in the dharna programme called by the party to lay siege to the Intermediate Board.
