The hunger strike by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) against the administration’s new admission policy entered its fourth day on Friday with one of the eleven students on strike being admitted to a hospital.
The students said they are fighting against the JNUEE 2019-20 prospectus, which they said has an exclusionary online entrance examination, scuttles deprivation points and reservation, delinks MPhil and PhD courses, and scraps BA second-year lateral entry.
The protesters said they have received no response from the administration regarding their demands. JNU has, however, maintained that the new admission process was running smoothly and the new programmes that have been introduced would make the university one of the best in the world.
V-C offers sweets
“On Thursday, when 11 protesters went to meet the V-Choping to establish a dialogue with him, he offered sweets to them and did not discuss their problems,” the JNUSU said.
