Andhra Pradesh TDP Bandh on 19 July 2010 | AP Andhra Pradesh TDP Bandh on 19 July 2010

Naidu and the others, arrested Friday night, were offered bail by the court and asked to furnish a personal bond for the release but they refused to take bail after which Judicial Magistrate First Class Deepak Matha sent them to two days judicial custody.

“They have been remanded to two days judicial custody,” S Munde, PI, Dharmabad Police station told PTI.Besides the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, 50 MLAs, two MPs and 25 party workers too have been sent to judicial custody.While Munde said as of now Naidu was being kept at ITI building, police sources said if he insisted on remaining in Dharmabad, he might be sent to the central prison either in Aurangabad or Nashik.After failing to obtain the arrested TDP leaders’ signatures on blank bond papers, Maharashtra police brought the local magistrate to the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) campus to hear the case.

One of the TDP MLAs, arrested in Dharmabad told PTI over phone that the magistrate tried to persuade us for bail, “but we have not been given the (remand) orders in writing yet,” the MLA said.

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party has called a bandh in Andhra Pradesh on Monday in protest against the arrest of party president N Chandrababu Naidu and 74 legislators by Maharashtra police.

TDP senior leaders in Hyderabad held an emergency meeting at the party headquarters here this evening and finalised the action programme. They also had a teleconference with Chandrababu Naidu who was remanded to two days judicial custody by a court in Dharmabad in Maharashtra.

“We appeal to the people to co-operate and make the agitation a success,” Yanamala said.Meanwhile, information reaching here said the arrested TDP leaders were refusing to be lodged as separate groups in different prisons in Maharashtra.”We shall all stay together. Take us to only one prison wherever it is,” they reportedly told the Maharashtra police.”We have been informally told by the police that they will continue our detention in the Dharmabad ITI itself. They seem to be making some arrangements for this, with separate facilities for the women legislators,” one of the arrested MLAs told PTI over phone.

Media personnel from Hyderabad who followed the TDP delegation on the tour said the Babli Bachao Samiti activists asked them to leave Dharmabad immediately.”The Samiti workers are forcibly sending away the broadcasting vehicles parked at Dharmabad to block the coverage of the happenings there,”a journalist said over phone.