CBN, TDP leaders beaten and kicked

A tense drama prevailed on the ITI campus when the Maharashtra police descended to separate CBN and his party leaders to be taken to the prison for judicial remand till July 26 2010. With all the TDP leaders, including MPs, MLAs and MLCs locked themselves in a room, the police broke open the doors and windows and pounced on them.

The Maharashtra police first drove out the security personnel of the former chief minister and also the gunmen of the MPs and MLAs. When the agitating leaders, including women legislators resisted, the police rained lathi blows on them injuring many.

The police even did not spare the women legislators who were kicked and dragged out. In a beastly act, the men in khaki pulled out the tubes from the arms of the sick legislators who were being administered saline water.

Reeling with emotion and in a choked voice, the TDP president lashed out at the senior police officers for treating them worse than street beggars and terrorists.

In my 30 years of political career, I have not faced such humiliation and inhuman action. Andhra Pradesh people will teach a lesson to your State and convey my anger and anguish to your government, he told the police officials of the bordering State.

The Maharashtra police then brought two Volvo buses, dragged and bundled the TDP leaders into the buses. While Mr Chandrababu Naidu and

34 TDP leaders were taken to the Aurangabad Jail in one bus, the remaining 40 were whisked away in another bus but where they were being taken was not immediately known as the police remained tightlipped. While shoving the leaders in the vehicles, the police snatched away the cell phones from of them and also the gold ornaments from the women.

As the mediapersons, including from local and national TV channels, were covering the police high-handedness, the police did not spare them by resorting to lathi charge. The cameras and other equipment were damaged in the police raid. Some of the leaders, who managed to retain their mobile phones, narrated their tale of woes to the media while being driven away in the buses.

The news about the brutality on Mr Chandrababu Naidu and his party leaders spread like a wild fire triggering off angry protests all over the State. Film actor Mohan Babu organised a protest rally with 5,000 students in Tirupati. The TDP supporters organised dharnas, rasta rokos and rail rokos at many places. Several buses were damaged in stone pelting in Visakhapatnam. Vehicular traffic came to a standstill at important junctions in the steel city with TDP workers organizing dharnas. A number of trains were also detained at many areas by the agitators. In Ananthapur district, the TDP supporters attacked and damaged transport vehicles belonging to Maharashtra State.

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