Cops block students' bid to lay siege to House

The paramilitary forces in tandem with the local  police successfully thwarted  the students’ attempt to lay siege to the Assembly on Saturday. The barricades and the vigilant police helped preempt the students from making any headway into the Assembly.

Office-goers, commuters, school children and business personnel had a harrowing time as the police blocked several roads leading to the Assembly.

Bent upon disrupting the inflow of Kakatiya  University students to the  city, the authorities  detained some trains running on Warangal – Hyderabad  route.  However, the  police authorities claimed that the  trains were  detained due to a bomb threat.

Meanwhile, the South Central Railway cancelled almost all MMTS local trains in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

With  prohibitory orders in force, all the  roads and  flyovers leading to Assembly  were sealed  and  restrictions were imposed at strategic  centres to prevent the students from  disrupting the assembly.

About  20,000 gun-toting police personnel  patrolling at the vintage points in the city the roads within a radius  of three km from the Assembly  wore a deserted  looks . The only vehicles moving near the Assembly are either police vehicles, ministers’ or legislators’  and media persons’.

The paramilitary forces threw a security cordon around Osmania University, the nerve  centre of the Telangana movement.

Amid tension, Chief Minister  K Rosaiah presented the 2010-2011 budget in the Assembly which  began at  9 am on Saturday.