Over 100 held for protests against Clinton

Over 100 held for protests against Clinton
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

HYDERABAD, MARCH 21: Over 100 leaders of nine Leftist parties including CPI and CPI(M), protesting against US President Bill Clinton's visit, were arrested by the police when they tried to break the police cordon near Nampally railway station here today.

The leaders, wearing T-shirts with printed slogans like `Clinton go back' and `India is not for sale', took out a procession from the Nehru statue in the busy Abids area to Nampally and tried to break the police cordon near Nampally station, police said.

Some women demonstrators were bodily lifted to police vans when they squatted on the road disrupting traffic.

The arrested include B V Raghavulu, state unit secretary of CPI(M), S Sudhakar Reddy, ex-MP and state secretary of CPI Naryana, Ajit Pasha and Dharmabiksham.