'3 Idiots' fever rubs on Telangana protesters

NEW DELHI(PTI): '3 Idiots' fever rubbed off even on pro-Telangana protesters who used the publicity posters of the Aamir Khan-starrer today in a bid to generate some effect. The images of the heads of actors Aamir Khan, R Madhavan and Sharman Joshi were substituted with TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, Praja Rajya Party chief Chiranjeevi and Congress MP from Vijaywada L Rajagopal as the protesters carried the posters into the high-security area in the Capital. The protesters from JNU Forum for Telangana reached North Block housing Home Ministry in small groups and then suddenly gathered outside the gates of ministry and started shouting pro-Telangana slogans. The protesters who waved the modified posters of '3 Idiots' were chased away by the CISF and Delhi Police personnel who had thrown a security ring around the ministry where Home Minister P Chidambaram was holding talks with political leaders from Andhra Pradesh. Earlier in the day, nine MLAs and an MP from Andhra Pradesh were among 21 protestors taken into preventive custody today when about 100 activists gathered at North Block violating prohibitory orders, as a meeting on Telengana issue was in progress in the Home Ministry. The protesters who caught the security officials off-guard in the VVIP area were released later. Pro-Telengana protesters also gathered at North Block and raised slogans. About 100 activists were present when the meeting on Telengana issue was underway.