Hyderabad, January 07: As yesterday’s Telangana talks in New Delhi failed to break the impasse over formation of Telangana State, a student from Adilabad committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his room at Premnagar Colony in Erragadda on Tuesday night.
A Bhooma Reddy (24), pursuing multimedia courses at Ameerpet, committed suicide in the evening.
It, however, came to light only late in the night after one of his friends went to the room.
According to the Sanatnagar police, the door was locked from inside when Reddy’s friends visited the room several times earlier in the day. On being alerted, the houseowner joined them in knocking the door but in vain.
Suspecting something foul, the house-owner peeped through a window and found Bhooma Reddy hanging from the ceiling.
“Bhooma Reddy’s two roommates from Nalgonda district had gone home. But his other friends in the city found the door closed in the afternoon, evening and again in the night,’’ Sanatnagar Inspector A Balakoti told Expresso.
The police broke open the door. In a suicide note purportedly written by Bhooma Reddy, he said that he was ending his life due to frustration over the delay in Telangana State becoming a reality. In an appeal to Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, he said: “Madam Sonia, we want our Telangana.
Otherwise, many students like me will continue to commit suicide.
Our struggle for separate State is 50 years old. If Telangana is not carved out at this stage, it will not happen even after 100 years. I do not regret dying but if Telangana is carved out my soul will rest in peace.’’ After the completion of post-mortem at Gandhi Hospital, Reddy’s body was taken out in a procession by junior doctors of the hospital.
The body was later sent to Adilabad district.
Later, the junior doctors blocked the road for nearly 15 minutes and raised slogans in support of Bhooma Reddy and separate Telangana, and burnt effigies. The police present in large numbers pacified them.
The doctors regrouped at a camp on the hospital premises where some students have been on a relay hunger strike.
BJP legislator G Kishan Reddy expressed his solidarity with the agitators and criticised the Congress and the Telugu Desam for “not coming clean’’ on the issue.
–Agencies