Vijayawada, December 19: Amid High Drama and Chaos, hundreds of Greyhound Dalam police today swooped on the Swaraj Maidan fasting venue and broken the Vijayawada Congress Lok Sabha member Lagadapati Rajagopal’s fast-unto-death which entered the sixth day today.
Mr Rajagopal took the fast at Hyderabad initially but the police shifted here the next day and he ‘recommenced’ the fast denouncing the centre’s announcement of initiating process of separate Telangana state.
Despite stiff resistance from integrationists when they obstructed the police, the MP was taken away to government general hospital in a police vehicle amid jostling and mild lathicharge at the fasting venue.
Mr Rajagopal was admitted in a special ward in the hospital and was refusing to take treatement and vowed to continue his fast.
Protesting against the police foiling their leader’s fast the MP’s supporters staged Rasta Roko at the Rytu Bazar (farmers vegetable market) and police arrested some of them in this connection.
——Agencies