Hyderabad:
Some students have been injured in a police lathicharge at Osmania University in Hyderabad, as the Telangana region begins to boil again over the statehood issue, with three people committing suicide. (In pics: Telangana tense again)
Osmania University students threw stones and raised slogans on Wednesday during the funeral procession of a student, Venugopal Reddy, who had reportedly committed suicide over the Telangana issue on Tuesday. The angry students claimed that the police were trying to "hijack" the body of the dead student and not allowing a funeral procession.
The police then lathicharged the students and fired teargas shells near the out gate of the Osmania campus. The body has now been taken away to Suryapet in Nalgonda district for cremation, without a procession at Osmania. Students are asking the police to leave the campus now.
The Students Action Committee has called for a total shutdown in Telangana on Wednesday, after Reddy and another student committed suicide on Tuesday in separate incidents.
In Warangal, students of the Kakatiya University are on a dharna outside Irrigation Minister P Laxmaiah's residence. The minister is in Hyderabad. There is pressure on all public representatives to quit their posts in an expression of solidarity and to exert pressure for the Telangana cause.
Those fighting for a separate Telangana state had earlier given the Centre time till January 28 to come up with a concrete plan and deadline on the formation of the state. Thereafter, they said all public representatives from the region would resign. But the suicides have precipitated matters.
On Tuesday, Venugopal Reddy, a final-year MCA student of Osmania University, had burnt himself. The 23-year-old student is believed to have left a suicide note making an appeal to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to grant a separate Telangana state.
Later in the day, an 18-year-old student set herself ablaze in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night, police said.
According to police, the deceased identified as Suvarna, a BSc first-year student at a private college in Kothakota town of Mahabubnagar district, attended her classes and returned home by 5.30 pm.
"Suvarna locked herself in a room and lit herself on fire after pouring kerosene," police said based on preliminary investigations.
A suicide note purportedly written by Suvarna, which was found in her room said that she was apprehensive if a Telangana state would be formed or not.
"Our team has gone to the spot and they are investigating the matter," a senior police officer said.
On Wednesday, 40-year-old Sura Nehru Naik, a district administration worker, killed himself.
MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) sat on a dharna outside the Speaker's residence on Tuesday night, insisting that their resignations be accepted. On Wednesday, all MLAs and MPs from Telangana have been summoned to Hyderabad.
The all-party Joint Action Committee, which has been holding relay hunger strikes for the past four days, also held an emergency meeting to review the situation in Telangana after the students' suicide.
The Congress legislators from Telangana also held a separate meeting to discuss their resignations before attending the JAC meeting.
Osmania University students threw stones and raised slogans on Wednesday during the funeral procession of a student, Venugopal Reddy, who had reportedly committed suicide over the Telangana issue on Tuesday. The angry students claimed that the police were trying to "hijack" the body of the dead student and not allowing a funeral procession.
The police then lathicharged the students and fired teargas shells near the out gate of the Osmania campus. The body has now been taken away to Suryapet in Nalgonda district for cremation, without a procession at Osmania. Students are asking the police to leave the campus now.
The Students Action Committee has called for a total shutdown in Telangana on Wednesday, after Reddy and another student committed suicide on Tuesday in separate incidents.
In Warangal, students of the Kakatiya University are on a dharna outside Irrigation Minister P Laxmaiah's residence. The minister is in Hyderabad. There is pressure on all public representatives to quit their posts in an expression of solidarity and to exert pressure for the Telangana cause.
Those fighting for a separate Telangana state had earlier given the Centre time till January 28 to come up with a concrete plan and deadline on the formation of the state. Thereafter, they said all public representatives from the region would resign. But the suicides have precipitated matters.
On Tuesday, Venugopal Reddy, a final-year MCA student of Osmania University, had burnt himself. The 23-year-old student is believed to have left a suicide note making an appeal to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to grant a separate Telangana state.
Later in the day, an 18-year-old student set herself ablaze in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night, police said.
According to police, the deceased identified as Suvarna, a BSc first-year student at a private college in Kothakota town of Mahabubnagar district, attended her classes and returned home by 5.30 pm.
"Suvarna locked herself in a room and lit herself on fire after pouring kerosene," police said based on preliminary investigations.
A suicide note purportedly written by Suvarna, which was found in her room said that she was apprehensive if a Telangana state would be formed or not.
"Our team has gone to the spot and they are investigating the matter," a senior police officer said.
On Wednesday, 40-year-old Sura Nehru Naik, a district administration worker, killed himself.
MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) sat on a dharna outside the Speaker's residence on Tuesday night, insisting that their resignations be accepted. On Wednesday, all MLAs and MPs from Telangana have been summoned to Hyderabad.
The all-party Joint Action Committee, which has been holding relay hunger strikes for the past four days, also held an emergency meeting to review the situation in Telangana after the students' suicide.
The Congress legislators from Telangana also held a separate meeting to discuss their resignations before attending the JAC meeting.
