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Mild tension in Jammikunta

Staff Reporter

Verbal duel between Congress, TD leaders over Babli

TD leaders raise slogans against Congress and also try to break placards

Police rushes to the spot and disperses the mob

KARIMNAGAR: Mild tension prevailed in Jammikunta town when a verbal duel ensued between Congress and TDP leaders over the Babli project during the `Rythu Chaitanya Yatra' conducted by TDP president and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday.

District Congress Committee leaders and hundreds of party workers carried placards and covered their mouths with black cloth in protest against the `yatra' of the TDP president. When Mr. Naidu's convoy reached the protestors, the TDP leaders raised slogans against the Congress and tried to break placards. The policedispersed the mob by resorting to a mild lathicharge.

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