New Delhi:
Pro-Telangana agitators today stoned the vehicle of an MLA and staged protests against another lawmaker demanding their resignation, even as the 19-year-old youth, who attempted self-immolation, succumbed to his burns.
Tension prevailed in Nalgonda town and police resorted to cane charge to quell a group of Telangana supporters, who hurled stones at the vehicle of CPI (M) MLA J Ranga Reddy. The legislator, however, escaped unhurt, but the windowpanes of his car were damaged.
The slogan-shouting activists, including students, wanted Reddy to resign in support of the Telangana cause, police, which resorted to lathicharge to disperse the violent mob, said on phone. The CPI (M) is opposed to the division of Andhra Pradesh.
The MLA was safely moved away, a senior police official said, adding one of the protesters sustained injuries during the lathi-charge.
In another incident, ABVP activists held a protest in Mahabubnagar town demanding resignation of TDP MLA K Dayakar Reddy in support of the Telangana agitation. They also held a protest in front of the guesthouse where the MLA was staying, police said.
Meanwhile, the situation was on Sunday peaceful in the Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana agitation, a day after a self-immolation bid by a youth S Yadaiah in the campus. He succumbed to his injuries on Saturday night.
Osmania University Vice-Chancellor T Tirupati Rao said that some non-boarders who are staying in the university hostels and students have been told to be cautious in the wake of allegations about Maoists having joined the agitators.
Meanwhile, the body of the youth was buried at his native village on the outskirts of Hyderabad. City police commissioner A K Khan said post-mortem was conducted and the body taken to his village by the police.
Yadaiah, who set himself ablaze shouting pro-Telangana slogans in the campus yesterday, was identified with the help of some certificates found in his bag along with a suicide note.
The note, purportedly written by him in Telugu, said the government is not responding to the pro-Telangana agitation.
"People like me will get jobs if Telangana state is formed. I am giving life for Telangana and please don't stop this movement till Telangana is achieved," the note said.
The incident last night sparked off tension in the university area, where police sealed off the campus to prevent students from participating in the 'assembly muttadi' (siege) announced by the Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee.
On the issue of outsiders on the Osmania University campus, Vice-Chancellor Rao said, "We have initiated steps to deal with the non-boarders in hostels who are staying along with students.
"Our priority is establishing peace and conducting exams. The faculty members would interact with the students and try to attend to their problems to see that peace is maintained." He also held an emergency meeting of peace committee constituted by the government and it resolved that students would be involved in confidence-building measures.
"Policemen are confining themselves to the campus police station after the High Court order. We told them that they should intervene only on our request," Rao added.
Tension prevailed in Nalgonda town and police resorted to cane charge to quell a group of Telangana supporters, who hurled stones at the vehicle of CPI (M) MLA J Ranga Reddy. The legislator, however, escaped unhurt, but the windowpanes of his car were damaged.
The slogan-shouting activists, including students, wanted Reddy to resign in support of the Telangana cause, police, which resorted to lathicharge to disperse the violent mob, said on phone. The CPI (M) is opposed to the division of Andhra Pradesh.
The MLA was safely moved away, a senior police official said, adding one of the protesters sustained injuries during the lathi-charge.
In another incident, ABVP activists held a protest in Mahabubnagar town demanding resignation of TDP MLA K Dayakar Reddy in support of the Telangana agitation. They also held a protest in front of the guesthouse where the MLA was staying, police said.
Meanwhile, the situation was on Sunday peaceful in the Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana agitation, a day after a self-immolation bid by a youth S Yadaiah in the campus. He succumbed to his injuries on Saturday night.
Osmania University Vice-Chancellor T Tirupati Rao said that some non-boarders who are staying in the university hostels and students have been told to be cautious in the wake of allegations about Maoists having joined the agitators.
Meanwhile, the body of the youth was buried at his native village on the outskirts of Hyderabad. City police commissioner A K Khan said post-mortem was conducted and the body taken to his village by the police.
Yadaiah, who set himself ablaze shouting pro-Telangana slogans in the campus yesterday, was identified with the help of some certificates found in his bag along with a suicide note.
The note, purportedly written by him in Telugu, said the government is not responding to the pro-Telangana agitation.
"People like me will get jobs if Telangana state is formed. I am giving life for Telangana and please don't stop this movement till Telangana is achieved," the note said.
The incident last night sparked off tension in the university area, where police sealed off the campus to prevent students from participating in the 'assembly muttadi' (siege) announced by the Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee.
On the issue of outsiders on the Osmania University campus, Vice-Chancellor Rao said, "We have initiated steps to deal with the non-boarders in hostels who are staying along with students.
"Our priority is establishing peace and conducting exams. The faculty members would interact with the students and try to attend to their problems to see that peace is maintained." He also held an emergency meeting of peace committee constituted by the government and it resolved that students would be involved in confidence-building measures.
"Policemen are confining themselves to the campus police station after the High Court order. We told them that they should intervene only on our request," Rao added.
