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Two more AP Cong MLAs hospitalised

Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad

The fast-unto-death by Congress and leftist legislators entered the fifth day on Tuesday, even as agitating activists of the parties organised road blockades at several places and damaged five buses in the city.

City police spokesman Murali Mohan said that five buses were damaged by Congress activists when they staged a road blockade at the Sultan Bazar crossroads. The agitators deflated tyres of buses and damaged windscreens and window glasses. Two hundred activists blocked the road for about half an hour near the Old MLAs' quarters.

Since Monday night, Congress legislators D S Redya Naik (Dornakal) and Janga Krishnamurthy (Gurazala) were also shifted to the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences following deterioration in their condition. So far, 10 fasting legislators, all belonging to the Congress, have been admitted to the NIMS in three days.

Leader of the Opposition and Congress Legislature Party leader Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy asserted that his party legislators and left members would continue their fast till the government conceded their demand for total rollback of the power tariff hike. "Our struggle is not for political gains. It is for the sake of people. We (the fasting legislators) are strong enough to sustain our agitation, come what may," he pointed out.

The police had a tough time regulating Congress and left party activists who thronged the hunder strike site. Cultural troupes of the left parties continued their 'struggle', singing folk songs lampooning Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and decrying the "back-breaking" power tariff hike.

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