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Telugu Desam Party announced the complete Andra Bandh for 19th July, 2010 when TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and 74 partymen arrested by Maharashtra Police at Dharmabad during the protest over an irrigation project in Babli were remanded to two days judicial custody after they refused to take bail.

TDP senior leaders in Hyderabad held an emergency meeting at the party headquarters here this evening and finalised the action programme. They also had a teleconference with Chandrababu Naidu who was remanded to two days judicial custody by a court in Dharmabad in Maharashtra.

“We appeal to the people to co-operate and make the agitation a success,” Yanamala said. Meanwhile, information reaching here said the arrested TDP leaders were refusing to be lodged as separate groups in different prisons in Maharashtra.”

We shall all stay together. Take us to only one prison wherever it is,” they reportedly told the Maharashtra police.”We have been informally told by the police that they will continue our detention in the Dharmabad ITI itself.

Now it is the decision of the people of Andhra to support the Bandh or not as first we shall find out whether this bandh is for the benefit of the state or the benefit of the party.

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