Hyderabad: Hundreds of protesters were placed under preventive arrest in the city and in many places across the state to thwart the ‘Chalo Intermediate Board’ protest on Monday against the goof-up in the exam results.
Many political leaders including Mohd Ali Shabbir, V.H. Hanumantha Rao, Ponnala Laxmaiah, Dr J. Geetha Reddy, TD TS president L. Ramana, Prof. M. Kodandaram. BJP leader Ramachandra Rao, CPI’s C. Venkat Reddy were placed under house arrest.
Hundreds of protesters were placed under preventive arrest in the city and in many places across the state to thwart the Chalo Intermediate Board protest on Monday against the goof-up in the exam results. Those arrested included political leaders, activists of Opposition parties and their student.
The protests and police arrangements affected traffic on the Nampally road. Free flow of vehicles was restored only after 4 pm. The environs of the BIE office was cordoned off and barricades placed on both sides of the Ek Minar Masjid Road. The police was deployed in large numbers.
The hullabaloo affected Inter students who had come to register their complaints with the Board on Monday. Many students were sent back by the police.
Syed Mustafa Ahmed of OSM Junior College, Moghalpura, said his hall ticket number was not showing online.
Elsewhere, ABVP students tried to protest in front of Pragathi Bhavan, the official residence of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao were bundled into vehicles and taken to the Nampally, Begum Bazaar and Saifabad police stations.
Many political leaders were placed under house arrest including Mohd Ali Shabbir, V.H. Hanuma-ntha Rao, Ponnala Laxma-iah, Dr J. Geetha Reddy, TD TS president L. Rama-na, Prof. M. Kodandaram BJP leader Ramachandra Rao, CPI’s Venkat Reddy.
When the leaders tried to move out, they were arrested and taken to different police stations — Mr Shabbir Ali to Jubilee Hills, Mr Hanumantha Rao to Kanchanbagh, Dr Geetha Reddy to Saifabad and Mr Ramana to Banjara Hills.
The Opposition parties blamed the Chief Minis-ter and the TRS government for the goof up in the Intermediate results.
“The TRS government wants to suppress the agitation with the police force, but it will not stop is,” TJS chief Prof. M. Kodandaram said.
