Hyderabad, June 21: In a repeat of the TD Mahanadu incident, the Telugu Desam activists thrashed Telangana Rashtra Vidhyarathi Samiti members when they attacked them with eggs at R&B Guest House in Mahbubnagar on Monday.
Angered by the attack, the TRSV, the students’ wing of the TRS, and other Telangana organisations called for a bandh of Mahbubnagar educational institutions on Tuesday.
The situation is tense in the town following the attacks by rival parties.
Trouble began when over 50 TRSV activists arrived at the venue and staged a dharna against the TD leaders and threw eggs on them when they were holding a coordination committee meeting of the party. Some eggs landed on the TD’s Makthal MLA, Mr Dayakar Reddy and his colleagues Mr P. Ramulu, Mr Yella Reddy, Mr Jaipal Yadav, Ms Seetha Dayakar Reddy apart from TD leader T. Devender Goud.
While police restrained most of the agitators, three TRSV activists, including Mr Srinivas and Mr Ravi Kumar, barged inside the R&B complex where the meeting was being held. Furious at the attack on them with eggs, the TD leaders and activists numbering about 200 hit back
at the TRSV and other T-agitators. They caught hold of three TRSV activists and thrashed them. The TD activists also pelted stones on a police jeep which whisked the TRSV activists from the TD mob fury. In the melee, both sides suffered injuries besides some policemen and mediapersons.
—Agencies