WARANGAL: The picketing by the CPI and CPI (M) activists turned violent when the police tried to disperse the protestors at the district Collectorate. Seven policemen and several others were injured in melee. Thousands of people affiliated to the Left parties reached the district Collectorate early on Thursday to express solidarity with the fasting leaders. The leaders were demanding house sites to the poor and withdrawal of police cases against their cadre. As the number of protestors increased., those in front, tried to gatecrash into the Collectorate premises. The police initially tried to pacify the agitating mob and tried to disperse them , but in vain.
The police were forced to resort to lathicharge. . Some of the women from the crowd hurled slippers and stones at the police and manhandled the women police on duty. As a result, seven police personnel were grievously injured. Protesting the lathicharge by the police, the CPI and CPI (M) called for a district bandh on July 28.
NIZAMABAD: The fast unto death being staged by the CPI(M) activists in front of the Collectorate here , entered the fourth day on Thursday. As many as 10 party activists have been observing the fast since July 23 on the issue.
A large number of policemen who were deployed around the Collectorate prevented them from coming near the premises. After a scuffle between the police and the agitators, the police bundled them into the waiting vans and shifted to different police stations. They were set free later in the evening.
KARIMNAGAR: The CPI district unit leaders have staged a dharna in front of the Collectorate here on Thursday. Led by district leaders K Narsaiah, K Raghavulu, C Rajesham and others the workers arrived in a procession from the party office to the Collectorate and tried to gate crash into the office building. However, the police have thwarted their attempts. After raising slogans against the Government, the CPI activists dispersed from the scene.
SANGAREDDY: The CPI(M) State executive member Sudhabhasakar, district secretary Chukka Ramulu and CPI district secretary Prakash Rao were among a large number of activists who were arrested by the police following a two-hour-long siege of the district Collectorate here on Thursday.
Earlier police resorted to mild lathicharge and applied force to remove the activists from the spot. While town CPI (M) leader M.V.Prasad was injured in the lathicharge, CPI activist Bharathi who was dragged by the Indrakaran sub inspector Manga to the police station was also injured. Speaking to The Hindu, Chukka Ramulu condemned the lathicharge and said that the police did not even spare women and dragged them by hair. NALGONDA: Police arrested about 100 activists when they tried to lay siege to the Collectorate here on Thursday. Hundreds of workers thronged the town in support of the ‘Bhoo poratam’ by morning. , They tried to stage a dharna in front of the Collectorate main gate but police thwarted their attempt by arresting the leaders.
The district secretary of the CPI (M) Nandhyala Narasimha Reddy claimed that the protest programme was a grand success.
“We planned three phases of protest and it went on well,” he claimed, condemning the arrest of the Communist leaders and the ‘highhandedness’ of the police against the activists.
ADILABAD: Left party activists on Thursday blockaded the district Collectorate and staged a rasta roko on the NH 7 as part of their `Bhoo poratam’ agitation. The agitators were arrested and taken to the Two Town police station at about 11 a.m.
KHAMMAM : Hundreds of Left party workers courted arrest at different places as part of the stir on Thursday. The police resorted to lathicharge at Bhadrachalam. Those arrested by the police on the occasion included P. Sudarshan , T. S,. Prasad (CPI-M), T. V. Chowdhury and Moulana (CPI).
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