Date:25/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/25/stories/2006082508290104.htm

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Ends fast

New Delhi: K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief, ended his fast at the Jantar Mantar here on Thursday night after two days of the protest on the statehood issue. He ended the fast after Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar visited him and appealed to him to give up the fast in the larger interest of his struggle .