Allahabad University Agitating students
Highlights
- Students are agitating since last 29 days
- effigy of education minister and vice chancellor burnt
- talks with university administration failed
Allahabad University: Students have been agitating continuously for a month against the increase in fees in Allahabad University. In this sequence, on Wednesday, in front of the student union building in the university campus, the students intensified their protest. Students burnt effigies of Union Education Minister and University Vice Chancellor in the university campus. Due to Dussehra holiday in the university, there was silence in the campus and only agitating students, some security personnel and media persons were present there.
Students are on hunger strike for 30 days
During this, Vice President of Students Union Akhilesh Yadav told the media persons that today on the occasion of Vijayadashami, we have done the work of sacrificing their ego by burning effigies of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Vice Chancellor Sangeeta Srivastava. He said that we have been sitting on hunger strike for the last 30 days, but they could not even digest their heart. Manish Kumar, secretary of All India Student Association said that today we have burnt the effigy of Education Minister and Vice Chancellor against the way the fees have been increased in Allahabad University.
Student talks with university administration failed
Let us tell you that the talks of students agitating for the withdrawal of fee hike in Allahabad University failed with the university administration on Tuesday, after which the students had warned of giving a bigger form to the agitation. Akhilesh Yadav, vice-president of the student union, said that the meeting with the university administration, which lasted for about two and a half hours, was a complete failure. He said that 20 students attended the meeting but Vice Chancellor Professor Sangeeta Srivastava did not attend on behalf of the university administration. He told that in this talk of the students there was a two-point demand – first to withdraw the 300 percent fee hike and secondly to restore the student union.