Students of different colleges, under the banner of Bahujan Vidyarthi Sangha, took out a procession here on Wednesday demanding that both the State and Union government fill backlog posts within a time-bound period, to enable candidates from scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes to get employment.
Students later submitted a memorandum to the district administration in which they said that though reservation was there in government offices, these candidates had failed to get jobs in government offices for many years as recruitment had been stopped.
The students Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to bring in reservation in the private sector as well. anesh Murthy, Siddaraju, Naveen Kumar, Pratap P. were among the student leaders who participated in the agitation.