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Ryots attack sub-stations in Warangal

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Seek uninterrupted nine-hour power supply for their farms

Farmers lock up sub-station staff as a mark of protest

Damage furniture and stage dharna and rasta roko

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WARANGAL: The police took into custody scores of farmers and booked cases against them for attacking electricity sub-stations at Narasampet and Mamnoor in the district. The farmers were demanding uninterrupted nine-hour power supply.

At Narasampet, TDP activists staged a dharna for four hours obstructing traffic and later attacked the sub-station. They locked up the sub-station staff as a mark of protest. Some 900 farmers were taken into custody. At Mamnoor, some 200 farmers under the aegis of the BJP and BJYM attacked the 33/11 KV sub station and ransacked the office. Later, they staged a rasta roko on the Khammam-Warangal highway.

At least half a dozen offices of AP Transco were ransacked by the villagers and the farmers, who attacked the offices. Several farmers attacked the Vavilala Sub Station in Palakurthy mandal and detained the power staff for their failure to ensure regular supply. They damaged the telephone and furniture at the sub station.

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