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Andhra Pradesh
HYDERABAD: As the Nava Telangana Party (NTP) ‘declared creation’ of Telangana State here on Sunday, its cadre went berserk and damaged four RTC buses in front of the Chikkadpally police station where party president T. Devender Goud was held. Mr. Goud and 350 NTP supporters were taken into custody by the police as they tried to proceed to the Secretariat from Indira Park following the ‘self-declaration’ of the State. The party gave a call to a large gathering which participated in a public meeting at Indira Park to change the name of ‘Andhra Pradesh Secretariat’ to ‘Telangana State’. Mr. Goud boarded a packed open truck to Chikkadpally police station but the rest of his supporters were shifted to the Gandhinagar police station. The refusal of the NTP president to leave the station until all those detained at Gandhinagar were released triggered trouble. The activists who were set free at Gandhinagar gathered at Chikkadpally and pelted stones on buses, injuring one of the drivers. The mob also staged a dharna and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in front of the police station, paralysing traffic on the main thoroughfares. Mr. Goud left the station only after the tension subsided. Earlier, Mr. Goud asked the crowd to replace the name ‘Andhra Pradesh’ with Telangana on the signboards at all government offices since the new State had come into being. The letters ‘AP’ should be replaced with ‘TG’ on the number plates of all vehicles which should also bear stickers embossed with the name and map of Telangana. The ‘declaration’ of the State was made amid release of 10 pigeons, each symbolising a district of Telangana, by veteran leader Konda Laxman Bapuji.
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