HYDERABAD: Promising more trouble for denizens of the State this weekend, the pro-Telangana groups are gearing up for disruption of train services in the region for the next 36 hours beginning 6 am tomorrow.In a bid to intensify the stir, the autodrivers also will observe a 48-hour bandh from midnight on Friday even as violence erupted across the region with Telangana TDP and TRS cadres locking horns with one another across the region.As a precautionary measure, the South Central Railway has cancelled 72 express trains, 264 passenger trains and many other local trains.It has partially cancelled 48 express trains and 28 passenger trains.Adding to the woes of commuters who are already deprived of RTC buses due to the ongoing strike, about five lakh auto-rickshaws in the region, including two lakh in Greater Hyderabad limits, will remain off roads for 48 hours till the midnight of Sunday.On the other hand, the Telangana Students JAC called for one-day bandh of petrol pumps and liqour shops on Saturday.Despite their efforts, the RTC authorities managed to run only 300 buses in Hyderabad on Friday and another 35 buses from Hyderabad to other parts of the state and neighbouring states.Even as the RTC management has invited its staff for another round of talks on Saturday, the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) at Kothagudem has offered double wages for workers who are going to attend duties from Saturday.On the other hand, calling upon the people of Telangana to gear up for a militant struggle to achieve a separate state, TJAC chairman M Kodandaram demanded postponement of Group-I examinations in view of the volatile situation prevailing in the State.Some Group-I aspirants staged a dharna at the APPSC office demanding postponement of the examination by two months.They also met the chief minister with the same request, especially in view of the High Court orders setting 83 marks as cut-off for qualification, but Kiran Kumar Reddy ruled out any such possibility at this stage.Meanwhile, the one-day protest by the Telangana TDP Forum resulted in violence with some TRS activists trying to remove the protest camps leading to clashes between the cadres of the two parties in Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam, Nalgonda, Mahaboobnagar, Nizamabad, Mahaboobnagar and Ranga Reddy districts.TDP leaders were forced to end their protest by afternoon due to clashes.
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