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Wednesday, Dec 01, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Good response to bandh in Tirupati

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI. Nov. 30. There was a good response to the BJP-sponsored bandh today in Tirupati and elsewhere in the district as well. The bandh though peaceful, was marked by stray incidents and the arrest of leaders. In all 31 BJP functionaries were arrested.

A number of RTC buses were said to have been stranded at different places with miscreants in a pre-dawn move deflating front tyres. Party sources said that their activists moved in the town in nearly a dozen groups enforcing the bandh even as the police rounded them up. All the arrested were released in the evening. RTC's district buses mostly remained off the road and traffic remained disrupted in some places following traffic jams caused by the stranded buses with their deflated tyres.

Bank functioning hit

With the SBI's main branch and its Zonal office here pulling down their shutters, its clearing work remained totally disrupted. Some of the other bank branches in the town also were said to have closed later in the day after initial operations. So was the case with educational institutions and leading business establishments. Meanwhile, the former BJP MP of Tirupati, N. Venkataswamy, and other State and district BJP leaders claimed that the bandh was a 'total success'. Among the arrested were the BJP's State committee member, G. Dhananjayulu Naidu, the State BJYM general secretary, Bhanuprakash Reddy, the district secretary, Chandra Reddy, the town party president and others.

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