"rasta-roko"

Police Commissioner Kalmeshwar Shingenavar has denied permission to hold a 'rasta roko' programme proposed by farmers in order to maintain law and order in the district.

Farmers staged dharna blocking roads and raised slogans against the State government for not extending the waiver to them. They said that they were forced to roam around banks to get the scheme. Due to the protest, traffic came to a standstill for a while.

Raised slogans against the Congress government and demand it to waive their loans at the earliest

A decision was taken to stage ‘rasta roko’ protest on national highways on Saturday. This apart, they demanded that the State government should waive their crop loans without imposing any terms and conditions.

Around 500 farmers from several villages gathered and took out a massive funeral procession with an effigy of the Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at Talamadugu mandal centre.

They staged a sit-in on a road near Punjab chowk, resulting in blockade of the traffic for a while.

The farmers blocked traffic on the road leading to the surrounding villages for a while.

armers from Mallepalli and Pochammavada staged the protest and threatened to die by suicide by consuming pesticides if water was not supplied to their field from SRSP canal.

Farmers from Luxettipet, Modela, Suraram, Gullakota, Pothepalli and Itikyal villages in Luxettipet mandal gathered on the road and blocked traffic for a while.

Dalit Bandhu beneficiaries from Huzurabad constituency, who have been repeatedly making rounds to government offices for the second installment of the financial assistance under the scheme, staged the huge protest as the Prajavani programme, the public grievances programme held every Monday, was on at the Collectorate.

BJP activists staged a rasta roko on the Karimnagar-Warangal highway near Molangur on Wednesday, demanding action against cow slaughtering

Relatives of the three people who were killed after granite blocks fell on an autorickshaw near Kuravai staged a rasta roko on Sunday

The agitators wore black badges and raised slogans demanding the government to continue the steel plant in the public sector.

Local fishermen on Saturday blocked all traffic to the Visakhapatnam container terminal on the seaside as well as on the main land

Kothagudem: A massive protest was staged here on Wednesday by TRS cadres against the Centre’s refusal to buy yasangi paddy from Telangana. Led by the local MLA Vanama Venkateshwara Rao a large number of leaders and cadres staged rasta-roko on Vijayawada-Jagdalpur national highway at Ramavaram in response to a call given by the Chief Minister […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: Telangana Rashtra Samithi workers staged a protest demonstration in Yellareddypet mandal headquarters on Saturday, demanding that the police register cases against BJP leaders who attacked TRS workers and damaged cars of sarpanches on Friday night. After a clash between BJP and TRS workers that took place in Yellareddypet police station over the uploading of abusive […]

11-year-old boy, Siddartha was going to the weekly market, when he was hit by a tipper coming from Sultanabad to Kalwasrirampur

Karimnagar: As part of the nationwide agitation in protest against hike in price of diesel and petrol, Congress leaders staged protest demonstrations across erstwhile Karimnagar district on Friday. Congress leaders led by MLC T Jeevan Reddy dragged an auto-rikshaw with ropes from Indira bhavan to Jagtial new bus stand chowk where they staged rasta roko. […]

In Karimnagar, police arrested the leaders and workers of Left parties when they tried to enter the district headquarters bus stand and stop bus services in the early morning

Peddapalli: Cotton farmers staged a rasta roko in front of Peddapalli agriculture market yard demanding remunerative price for their produce on Tuesday. Vehicular traffic on Rajiv Rahadari came to a standstill for a while as the farmers squatted on the main road. On coming to know about the farmers agitation, police rushed to the spot […]