PTS pickets Babu's residence, demand clear stand on T-State

Even as Telugu Desam Party Leaders from Telangana were busy in New Delhi, attempting to pressurize the Congress into introducing a Bill on Telangana, activists of Praja Telangana Samithi on Monday attempted to lay siege to the residence of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu at Jubilee Hills.

The PTS activists were demanding that Mr Naidu clarify his stand on the separate Telangana statehood issue.

The PTS activists surrounded the gates of the TDP chief’s residence and raised slogans against him. They accused the former chief minister of keeping the Telangana people in dark over his party’s stand on the issue of bifurcation of the state.

The police had to resort to a lathi-charge to disburse the activists when they tried to storm inside Mr Naidu’s residence.

Some of the activists were taken into custody and shifted to the police station.

The PTS was formed after some of Praja Rajyam Party leaders rebelled against PRP president K Chiranjeevi when he took an avowedly pro-integrationist stance over the issue of separate Telangana.

Led by Captain C Karunakar Reddy, the breakaway group formed the Praja Telangana Samithi.

Captain Karunakar Reddy had, at the time of the party’s launch, demanded that Mr Naidu and Mr Chiranjeevi quit politics for going back on their promise on Telangana.