Govt stops Jagan in his tracks-Kadapa MP Held, Released; Violence In Mahbubabad

Mahbubabad : Odarpu yatra of Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy triggered violence at Mahbubabad railway station in which at least nine protesters and six policemen were injured when PSOs of three elected representatives opened fire to counter the mob pelting stones on Friday afternoon. One of the injured is said to be in a serious condition after sustaining head injuries and a specialist team was rushed to Warangal MGM Hospital from Hyderabad. The four PSOs of Parkal MLA Konda Surekha, her husband and MLC Konda Murali and Mahbubabad MLA Malothu Kavitha were arrested late in the night and their weapons confiscated. Tension began to mount in Mahbubabad town by Friday morning itself after Jagan boarded Secunderabad Guntur Inter-City Express around 8.15 am with intention of kicking off his Odarpu yatra from this town in Warangal district. Determined to confront the MP, Telangana activists belonging to the TRS, BJP and other organisations began to gather at the railway station even as Jagan supporters, including Konda Surekha and others,too mobilised at the venue in order to welcome their leader with garlands.

However, the train was halted first near Jangaon after a bomb scare and then at Vangapalli in Nalgonda district a little after 10 am.The Kadapa MP was taken into preventive custody at the station at about 1.10 pm. Afterwards, Jagan along with legislators M Srinivasulu of Koduru constituency and Maheswar Reddy of Nirmal constituency was taken in a convoy belonging to Yadagirigutta police of Nalgonda district to his Hyderabad residence where he was released by the cops on personal bond around 3.30 pm. By the time Jagan started his journey from Secunderabad, Nagaraju, a BJP activist, allegedly tried to end his life by slitting his throat at Jangaon station, while Md Shabbir, another pro-Telangana activist, attempted self-immolation at the Mahbubabad court premises.
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T bandh today

Telangana groups have called for a bandh in the region on Saturday to protest the firing and violence at Mahbubabad railway station on Friday.The bandh call by Telangana JAC was backed by TRS and the Osmania University students JAC. RTC services may be affected in the morning.
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In T heartland, Kadapa MP finds no support


Vangapalli: Only 60 km from Hyderabad,Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy spent three hours in a train at Vangapalli railway station en route Mahbubabad but the scene outside did not seem to indicate that he had any popular support in a region fighting for a separate state. Even after the police took him into preventive custody and escorted him in their vehicles back to Hyderabad by road,the deserted roads clearly showed that Jagan was a loner in the Telangana region. For someone who has been trying to demonstrate that he had mass support across the three regions of the state, Vangapalli in Nalgonda district painted a picture in contrast. Outside the railway station, which is about 15 km from Bhongir, the police erected road blocks on the apprehension that a crowd might gather. However, they were in for a surprise as barring a few curious villagers,there were hardly any political workers of either the Congress party or Jagans supporters.

Five or six pairs of chappals strewn outside the railway station indicated that the police had used mild force on a motley group of people who tried to enter the railway station.On the contrary, many in the Secunderabad-Guntur Inter-City Express as well as in other trains that were held up vented their ire on the MP. We were stranded for four hours. What was our fault that we were made to suffer, a passenger shouted from one of bogies of a Hyd-bad-bound train that got the clearance after a long halt. Earlier, the Kadapa MP had left his Banjara Hills home in Hyderabad around 7 am for Secunderabad railway station and boarded the AC chair car bogie of the Inter-City Express. Unusually for what has been claimed to be a personal yatra, Jagan was accompanied by a 20-member team of Task Force sleuths led by DCP VB Kamalasan Reddy and about the same number of personnel in mufti to prevent any untoward incident. After the MP was taken into preventive custody at Vangapalli railway station at about 1.10 pm, he alongwith legislators M Srinivasulu of Koduru constituency and Maheswar Reddy of Nirmal constituency was taken in a convoy belonging to Yadagirigutta police of Nalgonda district to his Hyderabad residence where he was released by the cops on personal bond around 3.30 pm where he addressed a press confrerence vowing to finish his yatra someday.
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(SOURCE-TOI)