Avoid Hyderabad on Thursday, says IG
Hyderabad/Visakhapatnam, Dec. 8: The state government has deployed a large number of police and paramilitary personnel to prevent any untoward incident during the rally organised by the Telangana Students Joint Action Committee and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Thursday.
Personnel posted in various Andhra regions in the state have been mobilised to support the security agencies in the Telangana regions.
The Visakha Range has deployed 1,020 personnel to different parts of Telangana, including Hyderabad.
Official sources said while the personnel from Srikakulam were sent to Nalgonda, the Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam police were asked to report to the headquarters in Hyderabad.
The police spokesperson and inspector-general, Ms A.R. Anuradha, on Tuesday asked people to avoid visiting Hyderabad on Thursday.
She also said there would be restrictions on traffic movement. Moreover, Section 144 will come into force from Wednesday.
The city police too has made elaborate bandobast for the rally on December 10.
As many as 49 APSP platoons; four CPL platoons; 32 DAR platoons; 15 CAR platoons, six teams of CSG/QRT; six RAF platoons; three CISF platoons; 12 CRPF platoons, 12 AR platoons from Karnataka; 66 gas squads, four water cannons, two Vajra vehicles; and one mounted platoon have been pressed into duty.
In addition, nearly 1,000 members of the civil police and 8,000 personnel of the Hyderabad city police, too will be on duty.
In city alone, 35 IPS officials have been put on duty for monitoring law and order situation. Check posts were set up in the city outskirts.
Senior police officials were also sent to districts to assist the local police in maintaining law and order.
While 20 check posts have been set up along the city border to prevent the entry of students from the districts, 35 internal check posts have been put in place to control mob and vehicular traffic.
Meanwhile, mild tension prevailed in Manikeswarnagar in the Osmania University following some TV channels putting a scroll that a student, who was caned by the police on Monday, succumbed to injuries.
Ms Anuradha, however, clarified that a 55-year-old man had died due to a heart attack on Tuesday and his death was not related to the lathicharge.
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I have never lived in AP, nor do I speak Telugu. But that's not important. As an Indian, I concur with Asif Akbar's concern. Creating new states for existing ones does not solve any problem. Mr Ranga going by your rationale, can you absolutely guarantee that 20 years down the line some idiot would not want to break Telangana into North Telangana and South Telangana?
As Indians, it is our mindset that we have to change. Carving our Jharkhand and Uttrakhand has not solved any issues. For how long are we going to be operating with this divisive mindset? When are we going to see an people's movement where people from two states agitate to merge so that they become stronger as a single entity (look what the Germans did). After the initial pain of merging, united Germany is much stronger that West and East Germany. We Indians are idiotic enough not to understand the meanning of the phrase 'the whole is more than the sum of its parts'.
I guess if Telangana is approved then Hyderabad should be a Union Territory. This agitation by KCR is too much. Tomorrow some other minister will come up and use the same trick and ask for some partition. By this way we are breaking our country.
Hyderabad is a part of Telangana. Formation of Telangana is a public option, not individual's interest.
What public are we talking here - this is all a political drama against the wishes of the general public. Get a fair poll and I can bet that there would be less than 20 -25% support for a separate state.
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