HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu condemned the police lathicharge on a group of students agitating against the recent hike in fee of engineering and other courses on Wednesday.

In a press release, he demanded that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy tender an unconditional apology to students for the action that left several of them badly hurt.

State units of CPI, CPI(M), CPI (Marxist-Leninist, New Democracy) and legislator Gummadi Narsayya too condemned the `inhuman' lathicharge. K. Narayana, CPI secretary, in a statement demanded withdrawal of the hike effected "under pressure by managements of private colleges". B. V. Raghavaulu, CPI(M) secretary, in a statement criticised the police for their `indiscriminate' action. He said their behaviour towards girl students amounted to humiliating them. He demanded withdrawal of the fee hike as also cases registered against representatives of several youth organisations.

R. Subash Chandra Bose, secretary of the CPI (ML New Democracy), said students had suffered head injuries and limb fractures in the brutal lathicharge in Hyderabad, Guntur, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool and other places. He demanded immediate release of the arrested youths.

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