In Tirupati, thousands of devotees had a harrowing time in reaching Tirumala shrine because of the two-day shutdown. YSR Congress and Telugu Desam Party supporters clashed at Anantapur and Visakhapatnam.
Tension prevailed in Rajahmundry where hundreds of students, teachers, employees and farmers, rallying under the banner of the Konaseema Joint Action Committee, reached the residence of Amalapuram MP G.V. Harshakumar in school buses and demanded his resignation.
Water supply to the house of Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy was cut at Ongole, where the protesters also burnt his effigy.
Tension prevailed at Guntur when Samaikyandhra agitators tried to barge into the houses of Union Minister J.D. Seelam and Agriculture Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana.
The AP government has sought 25 companies of Central forces in addition to the 45 that have already been deployed. Of the 45 companies deployed, nearly a dozen have been stationed in Hyderabad and the rest in Seemandhra.
TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu will sit on indefinite fast in New Delhi from Monday, while YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy would begin a hunger strike in Hyderabad from today.
