Hyderabad, May 28: Twenty-four people, including eight policemen, were today injured in violence that broke out during a tour of Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan to Telangana, following which he was taken into preventive custody forcing him to abandon his visit.
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Nine people were injured when police fired to quell protesters while seven others were injured in clashes, police said. Eight policemen were also hurt in the violence that broke out in protest against his yatra.
Jaganmohan, son of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, had undertaken his ‘Odarpu Yatra’ to console people who had allegedly committed suicide or died after hearing his father’s death in a helicopter crash last year, despite the party leadership asking him not to do so.
–Agencies