Fasting Chandrababu forcibly evicted from Andhra Bhawan, hospitalised

GN Bureau | October 11, 2013



Amid high drama, Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu was on Friday forcibly evicted from Andhra Pradesh Bhawan by police and taken to a hospital on the fifth day of his indefinite fast against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

A heavily guarded ambulance, which was stationed at Andhra Bhawan to ferry Naidu, was laid siege to by his supporters, including women cadre. It took more than an hour for the police to get past the resisting TDP workers, who were shouting slogans and jostled with around 50 policemen.

The police had to use force against the protesting workers, who raised slogans demanding justice and accused Congress party president Sonia Gandhi for dividing the Telugu people in the name of Telangana. State government banners featuring Sonia Gandhi and chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy were vandalised, slippers hurled and effigies burnt.

A portion of the pandal set up on the premises for the event was also pulled down by the irate TDP supporters. Police said 63-year-old Naidu, who was accompanied by TDP MPs and relatives, was taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

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