Summary:
Following the bandh call, the private educational institutions voluntarily declared holiday for the students on Monday. At a press conference, Minister for Finance Eatala Rajender clarified that they were only developing the government old high school premises into the recreational park to provide lung space and entertainment for the locals. The Opposition parties’ leaders were arrested when they staged a dharna in front of the R&B guest house where Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender was camping. He also flayed the opposition parties for politicising every single issue for political mileage. When the Minister entered the guest house premises, TDP, CPI, CPM, YSRCP, TJS leaders and student unions’ leaders staged dharna raising slogans against the State government for closing the educational institutions and constructing recreational park in the government old high school premises..