Protesters included activists of various political parties, students, government employees, lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists, writers and cultural artists.
[2][3][4] [5] Around 200,000 government employees in Telangana participated by boycotting work and holding rallies or playing sports at the workplace while TRS MLAs travelled ticket-less in local trains.
[9] Educational institutions, private and public offices, commercial establishments, industrial areas, private and public transport, and outpatient services in hospitals were closed as unions, organisations, and individuals actively participated in the strike by having rallies, hunger strikes, community meals on roads, and other protests.
[15] TRS MLAs had heated arguments and gheraoed Lok Satta MLA Jayaprakash Narayan who had condemned the attack on the governor.
[19] On 19 February, Telangana protesters burnt down five buses and set fire to police tents in and around the Osmania University campus.
[24] Telangana cable operators blocked out TV news channels owned by Seema-Andhra industrialists citing their alleged 'anti-Telangana' stand.
[26] On 22 February, at Ellapur railway station in Hasanparty mandal, trains were stranded for an hour after pro-Telangana agitators removed hook locks from the rail tracks.
[28] Pro-Telangana students and lawyers ransacked the MMTS station on Necklace road and the reservation office was set afire.
[29][30] On 23 February pro-Telangana protesters set one bogie of the Kazipet-Manguru passenger on fire near Kesamudram railway station in Karimnagar district.
[31] Three buses of a private engineering college parked near Habsiguda were set ablaze by suspected Telangana activists on 24 February.
[37] On 21 February students hurled stones at the security personnel at Adikmet and Nizam College hostel at Basheerbagh area, forcing the police to use tear gas shells to disperse them.
[38] Policemen reported that Osmania University students protesting for Telangana have used petrol bombs to target police personnel on duty at the campus.
[66] On 3 March Parliament proceedings were disrupted whole day due to protests by Telangana MPs with the support of BJP members.
[70] The next day, the state government gave a written assurance to employees to press the centre for deletion of clause 14 (f) from the Presidential Order, removing free zone status to Hyderabad, and set up judicial commission to ensure strict enforcement of GO 610.
[56][57][58][77] Some parents' associations and teachers appealed to the JAC to postpone the protest as the gathering of a "million" people might cause inconvenience to the students appearing for the ongoing Class X, XII and CBSE exams.
Police issued prohibitory orders to prevent gatherings and set up check-posts at the district borders of Hyderabad, as no permission had been granted for the march.
Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS) train service was suspended on three out of four routes in the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and the outskirts.
Traffic was diverted by police and no one was allowed to areas close to Tank Bund, the secretariat, Raj Bhavan, and the assembly.
Students clashed with police when they were locked inside the Osmania University to prevent them from taking out a rally to Tank Bund.
[87] Several pro-Telangana leaders, including 50 MLAs belonging to the BJP, CPI, Muslim League, TRS, TDP, and Jamat-e-Islami parties and JAC convenor Kodandaram, were arrested as soon as they started their rally.
Protestors included activists of various political parties, students, government employees, lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists, writers and cultural artists.
[90] Telangana activists attacked pro-Telangana Congress MPs Madhu Yaskhi Goud and K. Keshava Rao by throwing slippers & water bottles citing their failure to resign in support of the separate statehood agitation.
[94] At around 3:15 a student of Osmania university attempted suicide by consuming poison on Tank bund road, saying "Jai Telangana".
[97] Several patients in critical condition were locked out of the emergency ward of the Gandhi hospital for over two hours from 2.30 pm, following a flash strike by the doctors demanding the release of their colleagues who had been arrested by the police.
[98] Around 4 pm, after KCR and Kondaram arrived at Tank bund, all the participants in the rally vowed to fight for formation of Telangana state by saying a pledge.
[115] The protestors looted[106] and set on fire an ATM of Andhra Bank, a government office, and damaged the windows of a hotel.
[93] The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, had instructed the police to refrain from firing, fearing preventable deaths and consequent stirring up of emotions even further.
[121] Telugu scholars, poets, political leaders, and local residents mourned and offered homage to the statues destroyed in what was termed Talibanic way.
[122] Srikrishna Devaraya lived 500 years back)[123][124] The Maharashtra Telugu Manch (MTM) president said, "The destruction of statues on the Tank bund has hurt sentiments of all the Telugus.
"Even if 10 lakh bulls marched on the Tank Bund road, they would not have caused any harm to the statues", Jonnavithula Ramalingeswara Rao, a poet remarked.