Water wars- TDP and the uncalled for Bandh?

The Andhra Bandh called by the Telugu Desam Party on the 19th July, 2010 created lots of hardship to the common man.  There were no public transport available for the common man to commute, no shops opened, no petrol bunks and to top it all, all the private cars plying on the roads were stopped by young hooligans who wielded sticks in their hands and threatened the motorists and hammered some of the cars who refused to switch off the engine, with their sticks.  The youngsters were in the age group of 18 and 24 and chose this ideology of the Telugu Desam Party to bring a grinding halt to any movement in the economy.  Instead of going to their colleges or place of work, these youngsters were seen at all main roads and intersections of roads connecting Chennai.  I guess it would have been the same all over the State.  One really shudders to think of the future that holds for these youngsters and more terrified to understand that these hooligans are going to be  the future leaders of the party and get elected to represent the party whose principles and ideologies are thrown to the wind to create a sense of terror in the minds of a common man.

I was returning to Chennai with my family after a satisfying darshan of the Lord sri Venkateshwara by road and I and my family were terrified to see the open goondaism exhibited by these youngsters who represented the Telugu Desam Party in Tirupathi area.  The police officers who came in Jeeps crowned with Red lights quietly slipped away paving way for the youngsters to flex their muscles!  We were held up with our engines turned off for more than an hour in our car.  I mustered courage to walk up to the leader who had the TDP flag around his neck and presented a pathetic position  and convinced him to let us go.  After a few minutes of pleading, he allowed us to go towards Tada/Kalahastri town knowing pretty well that we can not move any further from that place. Hundreds of trucks, cars and buses were held up for no reason. If the TDP chief Naidu was arrested in Maharashtra for some water dispute between the two states, the commoners were forced to suffer both emotionally and financially. This situation can not be accepted or tolerated any more.   Finally, we were offered help by a villager who took us through some very narrow lanes in between paddy fields, slushy and water logged roads and guided us to Tiruttani in Tamil Nadu which brought back life into all of us.  This kind of protest and Bandh disrupting life and troubling the common man should be condemned by one and all.  The Election commission and the Judiciary must combine together to bring in some strict legislation to prevent political parties from holding the public life to ransom.  I and my family have become natural opponents to this political party and have vowed never to favour.  The political party in TDP have lost mandate with the people in the state well enough to understand that this kind of politics will not lead them anywhere?