T-call for educational bandh against AP Day.
The Osmania University Joint Action Committee has called for all educational institutions to remain closed on November 1, to protest the celebrations of AP Formation Day in the Telangana region.
The OUJAC has urged managements of educational institutions to observe November 1 as “betrayal day” and said that students should boycott classes if the managements refuse to declare a holiday.
Telangana agitators staged protests and demonstrations in the city on Sunday.
The police arrested several protesters who tried to lay siege to the Chief Minister’s residence at Ameerpet and the camp office in
Begumpet. Students also staged a dharna in front of Gandhi Bhavan. Meanwhile. the AP Private Schools Managements Association has said it will not declare any holiday on Monday, but individual schools can do so if they feel the situation in their localities warrants it.
Fearing violent incidents because of the bandh call some private schools have declared a holiday on Monday and sent SMSes to parents.
Colleges have not declared a holiday on Monday either but JNTU Hyderabad has postponed its mid-term exams for B.
Tech and B. Pharmacy courses scheduled on Monday. These exams will now be held on November 8.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in the wake of the Osmania University Joint Action Committee’s call for all educational institutions to remain closed on November 1.
The city police have four companies of the Rapid Action Force and 10 platoons of the AP Special Police standing by, in addi tion to the existing force.
The commissioner of police, Mr A.K. Khan, said: “We have made elaborate security arrangements in the city as well as at Indira Park for the smooth conduct of the AP Formation Day celebration programmes. Telangana groups had approached us seeking permission to visit Gun Park and Indira Park.
However, they are only allowed to visit those places in the afternoon after the official programme is finished. Violators will be prosecuted.”
Traffic will not be allowed from DBR Mills towards Indira Park via Vartha lane and Park View Apartments and vice-versa from 6 am to 12 noon.
The city police is also guarding the statues at Tank Bund after an unidentified youth torched the statue of Potti Sriramulu in the main hall of Telugu University in Public Gardens on Friday. The city police is also guarding the statues at Tank Bund after an unidentified youth torched the statue of Potti Sriramulu in the main hall of Telugu University in Public Gardens on Friday.
Source: DC