HYDERABAD: Telangana continued to reverberate with protests, dharnas and rasta rokos as RTC staff and electricity department employees joined the Sakalajanula Samme to intensify the movement on the seventh day on Monday.
Violence was witnessed at several places as T activists damaged buses and blocked roads forcing police to resort to lathicharge and arrest the agitators.
The employees and workers of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) abstained from work for the seventh consecutive day. SCCL union leaders and a few workers who attended duties had a scuffle at Manuguru in Khammam district. Police forces deployed at the mines resorted to lathicharge to disperse the crowd and arrested some of the protestors.
Similarly, the government employees, teachers and others kept away from work and participated in the agitation programmes organised by the RTC staff and political parties, as part of the road blockades. While managements of private schools and colleges continued their protest by closing their institutions for two more days, commercial establishments remained closed at several places in the region. Meanwhile, electricity employees in Telangana launched their protest on Monday and declared that they would not attend duties.