Agitators stalls Finance Minister at Gannavaram airport
Hyderabad, November 21, 2007The State wide bandh called by farmers’ wings of all the major Opposition parties to demand enhancement of MSP for paddy to Rs.1,000 per quintal passed off peacefully. The bandh evoked a partial response in most districts and Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam but in Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Warangal and a few other districts, the bandh was near total.
The bandh was supported by the TDP, CPI(M),CPI, TRS and the BJP which have been agitating since one month on the issue of higher Minimum Support Price for paddy. The CPI State secretary K Narayana led the protestors in forcing the closure of shops in Tirupati while the BJP State president, B Dattatreya rode pillion on a motorcycle in the twin cities to enforce the bandh. Education institutions and business establishments were closed though government offices, banks and cinema halls functioned during the day.
Hundreds of activists were arrested in several districts while the police registered cases against five persons in Adilabad for damaging a hotel. A petrol filling station in Karimnagar was ransacked. The agitators gheraoed the Finance Minister K Rosaiah after he landed at the Gannavaram Airport. Two ministers were obstructed near Amangal in Mahaboobnagar district.
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