Kodela arrested in Guntur

Guntur, Dec 21: The police on Monday arrested many Telugu Desam leaders including  Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Prattipati Pulla Rao and G.V. Anjaneyulu from the Potti Sriramulu Statue camp where the TDP leaders were on indefinite past demanding that the Government does not interfere in the integrated state structure. The cops swooped down on the leaders before they were shifted to the Government General Hospital in the wee hours.About 50 police personnel reached the camp site at 3.45 a.m. where the TDP leaders were on fast and physically lifted them into waiting vehicles before being taken to the hospital.

Meanwhile, the Congress leaders in the town, continued the agitation at the same venue with Chamber of Commerce president Athukuru Anjaneyulu sitting on `indefinite fast'.Train services were disrupted after the TDP and Congress workers organised rail-roko, forcing the Falaknuma Express to halt at Guntur Railway Station at 4.20 a.m. Road traffic was also blocked in the city and on National Highway in protest against the arrest of the leaders on indefinite fast.