Widespread protests over Telangana hit Seemandhra on second day

The agitators also stopped private vehicles carrying pilgrims to the Tirumala temple at Tirupati for 'Brahmatsovam'.

Police have made elaborate security arrangements in view of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy's visit to the temple to make offerings on behalf of the state government. Student and govt employees' leaders have been taken into preventive custody.