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Cops shift striking UoH students to hospital
Police on Saturday evening disrupted the four-day-old indefinite fast by seven students of the University of Hyderabad. As the condition of the fasting students was deteriorating, the police asked the students to call of their fast.
Hyderabad: Police on Saturday evening disrupted the four-day-old indefinite fast by seven students of the University of Hyderabad. As the condition of the fasting students was deteriorating, the police asked the students to call of their fast.
When the students refused to do so, they forcibly shifted them to the health centre on the campus. Seven students of UoH had sat on indefinite hunger strike following the suicide of research scholar Vemula Rohith Chakravarti.
Vaikhari Aryat, research scholar, Political Science Department, was the first one to be shifted to the university health centre as she complained of giddiness. Even as the university doctors requested the students to give up their hunger strike, they continued with the strike.
As the health condition of Mahesh of Telugu Department and Jay Rao of Linguistics was deteriorating, they too were moved to the Continental Hospital for treatment.Mild tension prevailed as the university police tried to shift the students from the camp at the shopping complex on the campus to university health centre.
The protesting students prevented police raising slogans ‘police go back’. Another batch of students were preparing to protest to keep the agitation alive. Meanwhile, the Joint Action Committee for Social Justice late on Friday night screened “Muzaffarnagar Baki Hai”, a movie on the Muzzaffarnagar riots, for about 200 students on the campus.
It may be mentioned here that screening of this movie had led to differences among Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) and ABVP that ultimately led to expulsion of five students belonging to ASA. On Saturday, the JAC planned to screen the movie of Jai Bheem Ambedkar movie.
Meanwhile, it is said that Congress floor leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge would visit the University of Hyderabad to extend solidarity with the protesting students. According to sources, Kharge will visit the UoH on Sunday at 1.30 pm and will meet the family members of Rohith and also address the agitating students.
On Saturday, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Congress leaders made a beeline to the university to extend solidarity with the agitating students. Former Union Minister Jaipal Reddy, ex-ministers J Geeta Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Telangana Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy, Congress MLA Jeevan Reddy, DK Aruna, Andhra Pradesh Congress leaders, Raghuveera Reddy, MLC C Ramachandraiah, Sake Sailajanath, K Venkata Krishna Reddy and CPI National Secretary K Narayana visited the university.
Geeta Reddy demanded that University Vice-Chancellor Prof. P Appa Rao should be sacked and he should not be given any post in any other university across the country. She said the TRS government is still mum even as the university is rippling with series of protest.
