The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) activists staged demonstrations across Kadapa district on August 29 (Tuesday) in response to the call by the party leadership for a State-wide protest against the alleged indiscriminate sand mining at the behest of the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).
TDP activists led by party State vice-president Putha Narasimha Reddy laid siege to the Animela sand reach in Veerapunayunipalle mandal. Lakhs of cubic metres of sand were being illegally transported across the State and it was not accounted for, he alleged.