‘Rail roko’ programme has little effect in city
Wednesday, 06.01.2010, 11:01am (GMT+5.5)
HYDERABAD: The ‘rail roko’ programme, called for by pro-Telangana activists, had little effect in and around the State capital on Tuesday.
The South Central Railway authorities had already cancelled some trains, including the Falaknuma-Secunderabad MMTS train, for the day. All the other Express trains ran on time at Secunderabad railway station, the railway police officials said.
Agitators stopped a local train at Chittigadda near Vikarabad in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district. A MMTS train was stopped at Chandanagar for five minutes. No train services were affected at Kachiguda railway station. No untoward incident was reported in any part of the city. Pro-Telangana activists brought traffic movement to a grinding halt on the bustling Mumbai highway by squatting on the road at Kukatpally on Tuesday. While one batch demonstrated on the road at JNTU junction, another blocked the traffic at Kukatpally bus stop holding up vehicles for over 10 minutes.
The local police restored the normal traffic movement by taking 30 agitators into preventive custody. Members of Joint Action Committee of political parties stopped traffic on the main road at Keesara on the outskirts urging the Centre to speed up process of forming Telangana State. Locals formed a human chain at Abdullahpurmet in Jeedimetla demanding Statehood for Telangana.
News Department
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