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Singapuram Yadaiah, the 19-year-old who died on Sunday after his self-immolation on the Osmania University campus, was cremated amid high tension in his village Nagaram in Ranga Reddy district.
Yadaiah, who suffered 80 percent burns, died in the early hours of Sunday in DRDO Apollo Hospital. When his body was brought to the village in a van, angry and emotional villagers received it with slogans of "Jai Telangana".
Later, when the police tried to forcibly send the body in a hurry for cremation, people resisted it. Some Congress leaders, who came to pay tributes to Yadaiah, also faced villagers' wrath.
People wanted their legislator and Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy to come and pay tributes to Yadaiah, but she did not turn up.
Popular balladeer Ghaddar, Telangana Joint Action committee convenor Prof Kodandaram, TRS leader T Harish Rao, senior TDP leader T Devender Goud, state BJP President Bandaru Dattatreya visited the victim's house.
"When the goal is coming nearer, youth and students should not commit such acts. Rather they should make their views known to the Srikrishna committee," Congress president D Srinivas said.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former minister T Jeevan Reddy said Congress and Telugu Desam leaders were responsible for the suicide.
Image: Angry students take out a march; Photograph: Snaps India