Mild tension prevailed for sometime at the Government City College near High Court on Sunday when a group of students from Osmania University ‘gheraoed’ Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao and Education Minister G. Jagadish Reddy. The students were protesting the State government’s decision to regularise jobs of contract employees.
Both the Ministers arrived at the college to attend a programme organised by a teachers association of Telangana in the afternoon when the students descended at the venue. As soon as the Ministers came out of the building, the students squatted on the floor and raised slogans denouncing the government’s decision.
Amidst slogan shouting, the Personal Security Officer (PSOs) of the Ministers escorted them to their vehicles and were about to leave when the students rushed towards the cars and blocked the convoy. At this point the PSOs pushed aside the students and drove the convoy out of the college.
Meanwhile, student organisations staged a demonstration and burnt an effigy of Mr. Harish Rao at Osmania University demanding police register a case against him under the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act. They alleged that Mr. Rao abused the students who were protesting against the government decision.
