TDP calls for Andhra Pradesh bandh on Monday

Telugu Desam Party has called a bandh in Andhra Pradesh on Monday in protest against the arrest of party president N Chandrababu Naidu and 74 legislators by Maharashtra police.

TDP senior leaders in Hyderabad held an emergency meeting at the party headquarters here this evening and finalised the action programme. They also had a teleconference with Chandrababu Naidu who was remanded to two days judicial custody by a court in Dharmabad in Maharashtra.

"We appeal to the people to co-operate and make the agitation a success," Yanamala said.

Meanwhile, information reaching here said the arrested TDP leaders were refusing to be lodged as separate groups in
different prisons in Maharashtra.

"We shall all stay together. Take us to only one prison wherever it is," they reportedly told the Maharashtra police. 

"We have been informally told by the police that they will continue our detention in the Dharmabad ITI itself. They seem to be making some arrangements for this, with separate facilities for the women legislators," one of the arrested MLAs told PTI over phone.

Media personnel from Hyderabad who followed the TDP delegation on the tour said the Babli Bachao Samiti activists
asked them to leave Dharmabad immediately.

"The Samiti workers are forcibly sending away the broadcasting vehicles parked at Dharmabad to block the coverage of the happenings there,"a journalist said over phone.