Police fire rubber bullets to disperse protestors

Mahbubabad, May 28: Police fired rubber bullets to quell of stone pelting Telangana protestors attacking the Former Congress Minister Konda Surekha when she arrived at the Mahbubabad Railway Station just hours before YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was to step down here to start his ‘Odarpu Yatra’ in Warangal District today leaving at least four injured.

A large number of pro-Telangana protesters had descended at the Railway Station this morning, raising slogans and holding demonstrations against Jagan’s arrival at Warangal on a six-day tour to console the 77 families memebrs who had lost their kin in the wake of Former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s death in a helicopter crash on September 2 last year.

Agitating protestors vent their anger seeing Konda Surekha and her husband Murali at the Railway Station.

The couple, rated as staunch Jagan supporters and had arranged for Jagan’s tour, were the target of the protestors ire.

——-Agencies