Shutdown in Seemandhra against Telangana decision
HYDERABAD: Protests started in waterfront Andhra and Rayalaseema locales on Wednesday, a day after the United Progressive Alliance coordination board consented to the division of Andhra Pradesh and the structuring of a differentiate Telangana state.
Street transport arrived at a standstill while shops, business stations and instructive establishments remained shut in the two locales, normally alluded to as Seemandhra.
The shutdown called by Samaikya Andhra or United Andhra Joint Action Committee has evoked close aggregate reaction in all major towns. Contradicting the division of the state, learners and activists of different assemblies took to the boulevards.
Likenesses of Congress president Sonia Gandhi were blazed throughout the challenges. The nonconformists raised trademarks of 'jai Samaikya Andhra' and squatted on the streets.
The nonconformists affirmed that the Congress, which heads the UPA, took an "unilateral" choice to partition the state, and requested the abdication of all open agents to mount force on the gathering to withdraw the choice.
Transports of state-claimed Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) couldn't vacate the stations as protestors arranged sit-ins at every one of the nine locale of beachfront Andhra and four of Rayalaseema.
The shutdown hit ordinary life in Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram, Eluru, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Guntur, Nellore, Ongole, Chittoor, Tirupati, Anantapur, Kadapa, Kurnool and different towns.
The dissenters blocked movement on national and state roadways at a few spots. Several vehicles were stranded because of challenges on the Vijayawada-Hyderabad and the Chennai-Bhubaneswar interstates.
In Tirupati and some different spots, protestors flattened the tyres of vehicles.
Many police and paramilitary faculty have been sent in the two areas to look after peace.
Street transport arrived at a standstill while shops, business stations and instructive establishments remained shut in the two locales, normally alluded to as Seemandhra.
The shutdown called by Samaikya Andhra or United Andhra Joint Action Committee has evoked close aggregate reaction in all major towns. Contradicting the division of the state, learners and activists of different assemblies took to the boulevards.
Likenesses of Congress president Sonia Gandhi were blazed throughout the challenges. The nonconformists raised trademarks of 'jai Samaikya Andhra' and squatted on the streets.
The nonconformists affirmed that the Congress, which heads the UPA, took an "unilateral" choice to partition the state, and requested the abdication of all open agents to mount force on the gathering to withdraw the choice.
Transports of state-claimed Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) couldn't vacate the stations as protestors arranged sit-ins at every one of the nine locale of beachfront Andhra and four of Rayalaseema.
The shutdown hit ordinary life in Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram, Eluru, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Guntur, Nellore, Ongole, Chittoor, Tirupati, Anantapur, Kadapa, Kurnool and different towns.
The dissenters blocked movement on national and state roadways at a few spots. Several vehicles were stranded because of challenges on the Vijayawada-Hyderabad and the Chennai-Bhubaneswar interstates.
In Tirupati and some different spots, protestors flattened the tyres of vehicles.
Many police and paramilitary faculty have been sent in the two areas to look after peace.
