Date:19/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/19/stories/2008071959790800.htm

Andhra Pradesh

TRS to organise bandh today

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has given a call for bandh in Telangana on Saturday protesting the failure of Congress MPs in the region to mount pressure on their high command to concede separate Telangana ahead of the confidence vote in Parliament.

TRS leaders said they were serious about enforcing the bandh call.

Meanwhile, the student wing of TRS forced a boycott of classes in colleges in Telangana on Friday.

The police took into custody activists of the wing at several places. After boycotting classes in Nizam College here, the students spilled over on the road outside and resorted to polishing of shoes of pedestrians and cleaning of vehicles.

Warm farewell

The TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao was given a warm farewell at the Telangana Bhavan when he left for New Delhi in the evening. Party activists applied vermilion on his forehead and blessed him with harathi. Mr. Rao said some Congress MPs from the State expressed solidarity with him over telephone. The BJP president Rajnath Singh also called him and appreciated the stand taken by TRS to defeat the government.