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This is an archive article published on December 11, 2009

Five students on hunger strike to protest Telangana statehood

Five students of Andhra University on Friday launched 'fast-unto-death' here to protest the Centre's decision to create a separate Telangana state.

Five students of Andhra University on Friday launched ‘fast-unto-death’ here to protest the Centre’s decision to create a separate Telangana state.

To support them,several other students decided to hold relay hunger fasts.

The Centre’s decision evoked massive opposition in this port city with students and common people coming out on the streets in large numbers in protest.

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The agitators blocked vehicular traffic at 24 places,staged sit-in at eight places and ‘rail roko’ at two places,city Police Commissioner N Sambasiva Rao said.

The protesters also pelted stones at a few trucks and a BPO centre,he said.

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