Hyderabad:
Students of Osmania University have threatened to lay siege to theHouse when the state budget is presented on Saturday demanding theresignation of all elected representatives from Telangana.
The area around resembles a war zone with all roads from OsmaniaUniversity to the Assembly teeming with security personnel andbarricades.
Over 15000 policemen and paramilitary personnel are on duty inHyderabad in a pre-cautionary measure to hold up protests. Normal lifein the city is likely to be disrupted.
There also are reports of train traffic being hit as several trainshave been stopped near Vikarabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Policeis checking these trains.
The students hope the resignations will pressure the Central government into initiating process for formation of a separate state. Ten TRS MLAs have resigned, the Congress MLAs have been reined in and the TDP is sitting on the fence.
Now, the students feel the future of the agitation hinges on them. They see this as a do or die battle.
"Please try to understand why we are participating in such a struggle. We have no jobs. Our parents are in debt. There is no money at home. It is a matter of life and death for us," says Satish, one of the students - the pain and frustration obvious as he explains why youth like him have joined the Telangana agitation.
With the Supreme Court staying a High Court order against deployment of paramilitary forces on the campus, the police has warned students to exercise restraint. "It is a surcharged atmosphere and if they do anything illegal, we will have to take action and book cases. That could spoil their future as well," said Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan.
Intelligence inputs warn that students could try some daredevil tactics. The police admit it will be a war of nerves.
All the routes leading to the Assembly have been barricaded with a heavy deployment of police force, not just from different districts of Andhra Pradesh, but even neighbouring states.