Highways turn protest venues
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Vehicular visitors on State and nationwide highways in undivided Nalgonda got here to a grinding halt for about two hours on Tuesday, as leaders of a number of events selected the shiny blacktops as protest venues and made statements ‘for Bharat bandh’.
Starting from Hayathnagar in Hyderabad, on the entrance to NH-65 (Hyderabad-Vijayawada), and as much as Suryapet, there have been a number of cases of visitors jam. Leaders of a minimum of 5 political events and their farmer organisations led the blockades, raised slogans and spoke to media individuals.
Some of the main websites of visitors congestion on the freeway have been Choutuppal and the toll plaza at Pantangi, Nakrekal junction and Kethepally, the place outstanding leaders together with their supporters, staged sit-in.
At Choutuppal, between 11 a.m. and 12.30 p.m., autos have been stranded, and with the supply of service roads, medium and small autos have been diverted.
Chityal additionally witnessed automobile stranding for about half an hour, from the junction until the railway gate. As a preventive step, the Chityal police detained some 20 TRS activists, 16 of the Congress and 15 others for about an hour, and ensured steady visitors stream.
Minor halting and queues of visitors was additionally discovered at Narketpally. But Nakrekal and Kethepally, two different main factors, witnessed most visitors with TRS, CPI(M) and Congress leaders taking part in massive numbers.
And for leaders from Nalgonda and Miryalaguda, State highways such because the Narketpally-Addanki and Nagarjunasagar freeway have been the hotspots.
Return journey passengers, in direction of Hyderabad, needed to wait at toll plaza.
With all of the visitors launched across the identical time, at Nakrekal, Narketpally and Chityal, one other hour of vehicular congestion was reported on the Panthangi toll plaza. Toll officers quickly declared all of the 9 gates as Fastag-cum-cash, and deployed further employees with handheld machines to expedite visitors stream.
Police officers alongside the nationwide and State highways stated there have been no untoward incidents reported, and the bandh handed off easily.
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