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Tuesday, Jan 25, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Demonstration at DGP office

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 24. Hundreds of TDP activists, led by the Mayor, T. Krishna Reddy, and the Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Sayanna, came out in a procession from the NTR Trust Building here to the DGP's office and staged a demonstration for over an hour.

Traffic came to a grinding halt on either side of the Lakdikapool-Police Control Room stretch with the protestors squatting on the road condemning the killing of Ravindra. Holding the Government responsible for the murder, the agitators raised slogans against the Congress and the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

Despite persuasion by the police who rushed additional forces to the spot, the protestors refused to leave the place demanding an audience from the DGP. The agitators alleged that the police were hand in glove with the assassins of the legislator. They charged that maintenance of law and order gone to the winds and chaos remained in the State.

As the road blockade continued for more than an hour, the police tried to forcibly evict the protesters. After submission of the memorandum, the activists returned to their city party office in Hyderguda.

At NTR bhavan

Telugu Desam activists staged a `rasto roko' near the party headquarters, NTR Bhavan here, and raised slogans demanding dismissal of the Congress Government in the State in the aftermath of killing of Paritala Ravindra, on Monday. A black flag was put up in the middle of the road opposite the party headquarters.

Wearing black badges, TDP activists, led by Sripath Rajeshwar, squatted in front of the building and held up the traffic. Mr. Naidu expressed anguish that the MLA's life could not be protected in spite of representing the matter to the President, Prime Minister, National Human Rights Commission and the Assembly speaker.

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