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Rayala Telangana: 10 political reasons
"The stone pelting is continuing and police fired tear-gas shells to disperse the protesters and control the situation," OU Inspector P. Ashok told PTI. An inspector, Vijay Srinivas, sustained minor injuries in the attack, he said.
Meanwhile, police began efforts to take the protesting students into preventive custody. Pro-Telangana students had also clashed with police on Wednesday when the latter foiled their plan to take out a bike rally from the OU campus towards Gun Park as part of protest rallies' call given against the proposal of Rayala Telangana.
The situation on the OU campus otherwise had remained peaceful for the past several months after the ruling Congress (at Centre) approved creation of a separate Telangana state.
In Nampally, lawyers locked the gates of the civil court and prevented judges from entering on Wednesday. The lawyers raised slogans against the Rayala-Telangana proposal.

At Rajendranagar on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Agriculture University students blocked a convoy of YSRC president Jagan Mohan Reddy who was returning from Chennai after meeting Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. The pro-Telangana activists threw rotten fruits at his convoy and tried to block his journey. The police had to use mild force to disperse the students.

Meanwhile, bus services of the state-run State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) were badly affected as TRS leaders and workers held protests near bus stations at different places in Telangana since morning. Shops and other commercial establishments did not open at various places in the region. The personnel of coal mines in the region have also stayed away from work, according to reports reaching here.

The bandh was called by TRS and other pro-Telangana organisations against reported proposal of a bigger Telangana which entails splitting Rayalaseema region and adding two of its four districts to the ten districts of proposed Telangana state. TRS had appealed to people from all walks of life to voluntarily observe the shutdown.

Rayala-Telangana envisages adding Anantapur and Kurnool districts to the proposed state of Telangana. The idea was suggested by some Congress leaders as a way to address problems like water sharing that are involved in the division of Andhra Pradesh.

Media reports said the Centre was seriously considering the proposal. The ruling Congress leaders from Telangana and opposition parties like BJP had opposed Rayala-Telangana.

Some of the Telagana Congress leaders have, however, found fault with the bandh call on Thursday saying the Rayala Telangana proposal is only found in media reports.
A report from Karimnagar, where the separate Telangana agitation is strong, said the bandh was total and peaceful in the district. Commercial establishments, educational institutions and banks remained shut and no untoward incidents were reported.

The Union Cabinet is likely to discuss the report on Telangana and the draft bill to create the new state as the GoM completed its work last night and is believed to have recommended merger of two districts of Rayalseema with the proposed state.