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Sakala Janula Samme: Day 14 - 26 Sept Updates
Updated : Sep 26, 2011
In a novel protest, the striking employees at the secretariat sang traditional Telangana folk songs and danced. A group of women employees in front of 'C' block, which houses the chief minister's office, did the 'Bathukamma' or the dance performed to mark the spring festival in the region.
State minister for infrastructure K. Venkata Reddy, Congress MPs Madhu Yaskhi, S. Rajaiah and Ponnam Prabhakar, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) legislators K. Tarakarama Rao and E. Rajender reached there to express their solidarity with the striking employees. They warned the government and demanded that no action be taken against the employees, whose indefinite strike entered its 14th day Monday.