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Left parties’ agitation throws traffic haywire

— PHOTO: P.V.Sivakumar .

No way out: The Nampally-MJ Market Road packed with vehicles as Left parties’ activists block the road on Thursday.

HYDERABAD: Traffic movement was paralysed for over two hours in the heart of city on Thursday as Left parties laid siege to the collectorates of Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad districts.

Thousands of commuters and vehicle-drivers got stranded on the trunk routes connected to the two collectorates at Nampally and Lakdikapool with the agitators staging sit-in on the roads. Patients and their attendants going to Osmania General Hospital and passengers heading to the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station were put to untold miseries.

Despite the police barricading the main roads, protesters managed to reach the two collectorates in large numbers.

The swelling crowds squatted on the road disrupting traffic movement. Slowly, they blocked the entire road even as police used mild force attempting to disperse them.

This lasted for an hour bringing the unidirectional traffic flow on Abids-Nampally stretch to a halt.

As a result, traffic was thrown haywire on other roads leading to Kothi, Sultanbazar, Chaderghat and beyond. The traffic police tried their best to divert the vehicles but remained helpless with all lanes and by-lanes getting crammed by drivers trying to escape the traffic snarl.

The situation turned worst when the police began evacuating the demonstrators, bundled them into vans and headed towards Goshamahal stadium.

When the police resorted to mild lathicharge, the crowds began running into the narrow lanes.

They again assembled at MJ Market junction and blocked the roads. Utter chaos reigned at this intersection that leads to important commercial areas like Osman Gunj, Begumbazar and Siddiamberbazar.

More chaotic was the scene near Ranga Reddy collectorate with all link roads filled with stranded vehicles. It took more than two hours to restore normal traffic movement.

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