Tirupati: Devotees are being forced to steer up to the Tirumala temple in Tirupati, wherever demonstrators have blocked roads to protest against the union cabinet’s nod to bifurcate andhra pradesh to form a separate Telangana state.

All roads to the noted temple city are blocked.

Protesters were seen by the people removing flags of political parties; they said they were doing this to indicate agreement mutually community against the creation of Telangana.

Tirupati is within the Seemandhra region – coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema – wherever a two-day bandh has been known as altogether thirteen districts once the cupboard cleared the Telangana plan last evening.

National highways ar blocked, colleges and faculties are closed, and ministers and legislators from the region are threatening to quit over their demand that andhra pradesh should not be split.