Anti-Telangana protests rock AP

An Indian state government employee and supporter of United Andhra Pradesh shouts slogans during a hunger strike at the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Widespread power outages paralyzed life across the state after workers at state run and private power companies were shut by utility employees opposed to the federal government's decision to carve out a new state of Telangana comprising 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh. (AP Photo)

Supporters of United Andhra Pradesh join hands and shout slogans during their hunger strike at the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad. Such activities are causing huge loss to the state govt.(AP Photo)

People rest at a railway station platform after several trains were cancelled due to power outages at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh state. (AP Photo)

Even the patients light candles and use hand fans to beat humidity at the King George hospital, ther protests do not even spare the ill ones.(AP Photo)

People queue up at an ATM after majority of the ATMs stopped working following power outages at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh state.(AP Photo)

A view of one of the major junctions during a power outage at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh state due to the ongoing protests in Telangana. (AP Photo)