Tension continued to rock Osmania University campus for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, marked by students protesting against Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s proposal to construct houses for poor on the campus.
Students under the aegis of Osmania University Unemployed Students Joint Action Committee (OUUSJAC) took out a mock funeral of the Chief Minister on the campus. Another group burnt an effigy of the State government and the Chief Minister, demanding that the proposal be scrapped. A shutdown was observed across all the institutions on the campus. The university administration could not hold BCA and LLB examinations, which were rescheduled for Thursday.
“Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao should first take up construction of hostels for the students in the university. There are several posts of faculty and administrative staff lying vacant resulting in hardship to students. The government should sort out these issues first,” J. Kalyan, Chairman, OUUSJAC said.
He said that the Chief Minister could construct the housing colony by taking over a hotel constructed by TRS party MLA on university land. The Chief Minister had announced he would construct houses on 11 acres of university land.
As a precautionary measure, the police closed down the varsity road for traffic during the day following a ‘rasta roko’ organised by the students inside the campus.
