The Telangana police on Sunday intercepted the striking Asha workers proceeding towards Hyderabad at several places.
Mild tension prevailed when the police tried to obstruct the Asha workers' padayatra at several places. The workers entered into a verbal war with the police, and the police evicted them from the roads.
In the Nalgonda district, the police detained protesting Asha workers at Koyyalagudem under the Choutuppal mandal when they tried to proceed towards Hyderabad.
The police also detained Asha workers at Sircilla in the Karimnagar district and at Siddipet and Kondapaka in the Medak district when they tried to proceed towards Hyderabad on a padayatra.
Condemning the arrests and the caning of the striking workers at several places in the State, Telangana State CPI president Chada Venkat Reddy on Sunday demanded that the TRS government take an initiative to solve the grievances of the striking women workers by holding talks with their Union leaders and taking up the matter with the Union government if necessary.
Reddy lamented that there had been no response from the State and Union governments to the Asha workers' agitation in various forms since the past 100 days. The governments not only remained silent spectators, they were also trying to suppress the agitation using the police force, he said. The women workers, who were getting a paltry pay, were suffering a lot in making ends meet due to the spiralling prices of essential commodities, and their cause was justified, he said.