Messes Reopened As A Huge Relief To Students, Emergency Like Situation
Still Prevails In University of Hyderabad
By Countercurrents.org
24 March, 2016
Countercurrents.org
As a big relief to student community besieged inside the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus messes were opened in their hostels this morning. It was apparently opened after students decided to approach the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as their basic right to food and water were denied. Gates of the university are closed and free movement of students is denied. Some 3500 students are trapped inside the campus. An emergency like situation still prevails in the campus with huge police force roaming the campus and internet and all communication to the outside the world cut off. Media persons are denied access to the campus. Students fear that there will be another brutal police action against them soon.
In defiance of the strike of mess workers, the student community took the task to themselves and prepared the breakfast in early morning today.
"D Uday BhanuUday speaks..writer, poet and scholor. Who was picked up from shop com when he was coocking. We were told they were even checking whether they were coocking beef..?"
Posted by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice -UoH on Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Yesterday, Uday Bhanu a student leader was brutally beaten up by the police for cooking food for the students who were starving since Tuesday. He became unconscious and was admitted in a private hospital, as the medical centre inside the campus refused to treat him.
Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohith Vemula was not allowed to enter the campus last night. Students took out a silent march to the gate to bring Rohith's mother inside. The police tried to shut the students out by closing the gates.
Professors and students shoved into the police van on 22nd March are still in police custody.
Yesterday Kanhaiya Kumar, Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President, was not allowed to enter the campus. He addressed the students from the top of a vehicle.
A video has emerged that it was the ABVP cadres who vandalized, Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podille's lodge.