WARANGAL: The agitation by the students, teaching and non-teaching staff of Kakatiya University in support of separate Telangana State continued for the third day on Friday.

The entire staff including students boycotted classes and formed a human chain at the SDLCE building. Hundreds of members laid siege to the Vice-Chancellor's office and held a public meeting.

Regional bias

The leaders of various teachers' organisations exhorted the student community to lead the separate Telangana agitation for a better future. Academics and senior members of teaching and non-teaching staff pointed that the State Government neglected Kakatiya University since it was located in Telangana region. "We demand that the Government sanction all the 450 posts in the university or else give separate Telangana enabling ourselves to fill the posts," said Prof. A. Sadanandam.

Sangareddy: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) activists continued their protests on Friday in different parts of the district. Rail roko was organised in Chegunta and rasta roko in Mulugu. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, TRS leaders Raghunandan Rao, Ananth Rao and others challenged the APCC president K. Keshav Rao to contest and win any election against the TRS from any of the Telangana districts.

They criticised Mr. Keshav Rao's comment that Telangana sentiment has weakened in the region. They called upon the dissident legislators to return to the party fold and join the agitation.

Mock funeral procession

Mahabubnagar: A mock funeral procession of Wanaparthy MLA and convenor, Telangana Region Congress Coordination Committee G. Chinna Reddy was organised at Wanaparthy town in the district on Friday. The TRS activists who took strong objection to Mr. Reddy's reported anti-Telangana statements later burnt his effigy at Rajiv Chowk in the town.

KARIMNAGAR: In Karimnagar town, the TRS activists staged a rasta roko and set fire to an effigy of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at Alugunur crossroads in the outskirts. Traffic on the busy Karimnagar-Hyderabad and Karimnagar-Warangal highways was stranded for about an hour following the rasta roko programme.

Similar protests were also organised in Saidapur, Konaraopeta, Sultanabad, Godavarikhani towns of the district.

NIZAMABAD: Over half a dozen TRS workers, including party Kamareddy division leader Nallavelli Ashok, who were on fast unto death in solidarity with their party president K. Chandrasekhar Rao were arrested and sent to hospital as their health was deteriorating on Friday.

Meanwhile, the TRS activists led by party political affairs committee State vice-president A.S. Posetty staged a rasta roko in front of the RTC bus depot at Kamareddy protesting against the arrest of their workers.

Traffic stalled

As a result, movement of vehicular traffic was badly affected for a brief time. The arrested persons were later set free after execution of personal bonds at the town police station. Similar protests continued at various parts of the district. Educational institutions declared holiday on Friday anticipating some trouble due to the agitation.

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