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.