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A.P. Youth Cong. activists injured in scuffle with police

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD SEPT. 22. A few activists and leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Youth Congress suffered minor injuries when there was a scuffle between the agitated members of the Congress youth body and the police during the `chalo Assembly' rally on Monday.

Tension mounted when the Youth Congress members tried to forcibly break into the police cordon posted in front of the Nampally railway station to prevent march towards the Assembly building.

Mild commotion was witnessed more than once when the slogan-shouting Youth Congress leaders tried to force their way towards the Public Gardens, and the police prevented them by putting up a barbed wire barricade. In the melee, a few members suffered minor bruises.

The DCP, C.V. Anand, had a tough time controlling the agitated activists who staged a sit-in protesting against denial of permission to move forward. After a half-an-hour drama, a delegation of Youth Congress members led by the Asifnagar MLA, D. Nagender, and the APYC president, T. Venkata Rao, was allowed to go to the Assembly to submit a memorandum to the Speaker, K. Pratibha Bharati.

It was only after the delegation returned that the agitators left the place. The rally threw the peak-hour traffic on the busy thoroughfare out of gear.

Flagging off the rally from Gandhi Bhavan, the PCC president, D. Srinivas, said that the statement made by the former Minister and TDP MLA, C. Krishna Yadav, who was arrested by the Maharashtra police for his alleged involvement in the fake stamp paper scam, created ripples in the ruling TDP, which had been trying to shield others in the party by making Yadav a scapegoat. "The scandals that have surfaced in the State have made the Telugus hang their heads in shame. It appears that the State is controlled by mafia," he alleged.

The Congress had, therefore, sought the intervention of the Governor, S.S. Barnala, in dismissing the Government on the ground of Constitutional breakdown .

However, the Chief Minister was trying to divert the issue by claiming that the Congress was politicising the fake stamp paper scam.

Addressing a press conference later, the APCC president demanded that the Government order a judicial probe by a sitting High Court judge into the police lathicharge on Youth Congress men during the rally and suspend the police officers involved .

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