Live! Vijayamma, 3 TDP leaders on hunger strike shifted to hospital

August 24, 2013 15:24

Four leaders including YSR Congress Honorary President Y Vijayamma, who went on an indefinite hunger strike in Guntur from August 19, opposing the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh were today shifted to a local hospital after their health deteriorated, police said.

Vijayamma along-with former TDP minister S Aruna, MLC N Raha Kumari and MLA Y Srinivas Rao, who were on hunger strike since last five days, were forcibly taken to the government general hospital in the wee hours.

The leaders were fasting near the Municipal Corporation guest house to press for their demands for a unified Andhra, when police swooped down on their camps and quickly took them away overcoming resistance from their supporters, in which a woman constable from the Rapid Action Force was injured, they said.

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