Telangana bandh ,Students ransack exam centre

Telangana bandh call given by students of Osmania University against the conduct of APPSC exams evoked partial response in the state capital .
As soon as the bandh began, protesters and students targeted state-run Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) buses and pelted stones at them  in capital Hyderabad, Karimnagar and other cities in the sensitive Telangana region.

Police have taken TRS activists and other Telangana supporters into preventive custody.Senior TRS leader N Narasimha Reddy was taken into custody at his residence in Hyderabad. He condemned the police action.

Students protesting the conduct of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) exam ransacked an exam centre at the Osmania University campus here Sunday, leaving three injured.

Tension prevailed at the B.Ed college as protesters broke the security cordon and barged into the exam centre. Some students writing the test came out with question papers and answer sheets and tore and dumped them on the roads, police said.
Legislators and leaders of the TRS and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were taken into custody in different parts of Telangana.


Although the police made elaborate security arrangements in view of the boycott call given by the Osmania University Joint Action Committee (OUJAC) and other pro-Telangana groups, the protesters outnumbered them.

Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and OUJAC uprooted the security barricades and broke into the college. The police failed to prevent them.

Meanwhile, the four students from Osmania University,who began an indefinite hunger strike yesterday, continued their protest.They have demanded that the state Ministers, ruling Congress and TDP MLAs from Telangana region put pressure on state government to cancel the examination or quit their posts if they fail to do so
   
The day-long bandh, called by Osmania University students and supported by political parties like the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi, began at 9.30 AM.
The students gave the bandh call in protest against the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission exams scheduled for today and threatened to disrupt them. They are demanding a 42 quota for students from the Telangana region in the APPSC jobs.

A bus was set on fire in Karimnagar and stones were also pelted at several buses at various places in the region. But, the exams began at various centres across the state amid elaborate security arrangements.    
      
The police have imposed prohibitory orders against gathering of people in the vicinity of the examination centres in the Telangana region.For this the state police had thrown a three-tier security layer around the examination centres to prevent disturbance by the protestors.

   
Meanwhile, students and political leaders from non- Telangana region have demanded that the examination be held as scheduled as it was already postponed twice.
   
TRS activists and other Telangana supporters held sit-in in front of bus stations in Warangal, Karimnagar,Nalgonda and other districts. However, the city buses were operating almost normally in Hyderabad.