Telangana supporters vandalise Karimnagar

Students demanding separate Telangana attempted attack on the house of a Congress leader, besides organising protests and hunger strike in various parts of the district today.

Some unknown miscreants set afire the office of divisional engineer of Sriram Sagar Project in Odela, 40 km from here, sources said.

In another incident, about ten agitators belonging to Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) climbed over a BSNL tower in Galipalli village under Illanthakunta Mandal, demanding the government to announce separate statehood for Telangana, they said.

The police foiled an attempt of students to attack the house of Regional Transportation Commission chairman M Satyanarayana Rao, they said.

The students and TRS leaders led a rally, and staged dharna in Manthani division headquarters demanding separate Telangana.

Pro-Telangana activists held road blockage at Rajiv Rahadari between Karimnagar and Hyderabad and pasted stickers of Telangana on vehicles plying on the road.