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Police foil Left parties’ rally

Special Correspondent

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Taking to the streets: Left party activists led by CPI(M) floor leader Nomula Narsimhaiah during Chalo Jubilee Hall protest march against the Mudigonda police firing, in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

HYDERABAD: The city police on Tuesday foiled a rally taken out by the Left parties in protest against Mudigonda firing incident.

The Left parties’ activists led by CPI (M) floor leader in Assembly N. Narsimhaiah, CPI State secretariat member K. Ramakrishna took out the rally to Jubilee Hall where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was holding review meetings with the State Government officials. The leaders were prepared to represent the developments of land struggle and the Government’s "repression" that culminated in the death of seven people to the Prime Minister if the latter gave an audience to them.

Elaborate security arrangements were made and the police put up barricades and barbed wire fence on the road leading to Basheerbagh flyover.

As the activists approached the police control room in procession, raising slogans against the Government and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the police rounded them off. The slogan-shouting activists and leaders were arrested and moved out of the area in vans.

Police also thwarted a bid by Mala Mahanadu president Karem Sivaji and his supported to take out a procession and stage a demonstration against categorisation of SCs. Police confined Mr. Sivaji and other activists in the former residence in S.R.Nagar and prevented them from proceeding towards Jubilee Hall.

Decrying the police action, Mr. Sivaji charged the Congress Government of suppressing popular movement. The Congress Government would pay a price for attempting to suppress popular agitations, he added.

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