New Delhi, Thursday, December 24, 2009: Telugu Desam Party polit bureau member Nagam Janardhan Reddy was attacked by irate students when he visited Osmania University here on Thursday to express solidarity with them on the Telangana Statehood issue.

Mobbed by the students, Nagam collapsed and was rushed by his aides to a nearby hospital on a motorbike. The protesters stoned, turned upside down and badly damaged the cars in which Nagam, another TDP MLA E Dayakar Rao and their supporters had come to the university.

Nagam went to the university soon after submitting his resignation from the MLA’s post on the Telangana issue, an aide of his said. The students also mobbed and tried to attack Dayakar Rao, he said.

The aide said there were no police personnel present at the scene of the attack despite advance information being given to them that the TDP MLAs would be visiting the university campus.