Hyderabad, December 27: Protests in support of a separate Telangana state continued today in different districts of Telangana region.
The fresh protests that broke out soon after Centre’s December 23 statement on Telangana issue continued in Hyderabad, Warangal, Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Adilabad and Medak with a series of hunger strikes, rallies, demonstrations and road blockades.
The fast-unto-death launched by students at the Osmania University campus here and at Kakatiya University in Warangal district entered the third day today. Several people and representatives of various organisations called on the fasting students expressing their solidarity.
Raising ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans, hundreds of students and others held demonstrations and road blockades and carried out a mock funeral procession of TDP leaders and burnt their effigies in Warangal city and Nalgonda and Adilabad districts.
“The students and other activists were detained for some time and later released,” a senior police officer told PTI, over phone from Warangal. .
-PTI