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The main opposition party YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh called for a State-wide bandh today, demanding Special Category Status to the state. The bandh has disrupted bus services across the State mainly to rural areas. State Road Transport Corporation has stopped plying buses on sensitive routes and interior areas.
Supported by the Left Parties the YSR Congress Party activists laid a siege near Road Transport Corporation bus depots.
In Vijayawada the YSR Congress Party activists and leaders were arrested by the police when they tried to stop the Road Transport Corporation buses coming out from the depots.
Speaking in Nellore the YSR Congress Party President YS Jaganmohan Reddy charged Chief Minister Mr. Chandrababu Naidu of issuing contrary statements on the issue of special status to the state.
As precautionary measure, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada city police have taken over 250 people into preventive custody. Buses plying to Tirumala in Chittoor district were exempted from the bandh.