In Kadapa district, the windowpanes of BSNL office at Railway Kodur were smashed. Mobs unleashed violence at different places in Kurnool district.
Police prevented protesters from blocking traffic to Tirumala, arresting many who squatted at the main entrance of Alipiri.
In Hyderabad, a combative YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday launched an indefinite hunger strike and blamed Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the current situation.
"Sonia Gandhi is responsible for the crisis in the state and she has been playing with the sentiments of people with the singular motive of seeing to it that her son Rahul Gandhi is made prime minister," Jagan alleged.
When "there is so much happening in the state", and when the ordinance on convicted lawmakers can be revoked, why the Centre could not reverse, in the same way, the decision to divide Andhra Pradesh, he asked.
"We will challenge the Centre's decision in the Supreme Court," he said, adding that there were "legal problems" with the proposed division. "We are opposing the unilateral manner in which the Centre is functioning. How can it go ahead with the bifurcation process without a resolution in the state Assembly? We have never heard of an instance of state bifurcation without a resolution in the Assembly," Jagan said.
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