Warangal: High tension as KU students threaten to end life

Hyderabad: High tension prevailed when the students of Kakatiya University, who did not get Ph.D. admissions, along with members of Kakatiya Univeristy-Joint Action Committee (KUJAC), staged a dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Public Garden in Hanamkonda on Monday with their hands chained to each other and threatened to end their lives in a protest against the irregularities being taken place in the varsity.

However, a huge contingent of police reached the spot and forcibly foiled their protest by arresting the students along with the JAC members and shifted them to Dharmasagar police station.

The KU students had given an ultimatum to the state government on Saturday demanding a probe into the irregularities in Ph.D. admissions at the varsity and a criminal case against the accused vice-chancellor Prof. T. Ramesh by October 2.
If the government failed to do so, they warned that they would end their lives on Gandhi Jayanti. As they had said, on Monday, the students reached the Public Garden at 9 am with their hands chained to each other and staged a dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue. They also invited the V-C, deans of various departments and commissioner of police to come there for discussions on the irregularities.

The students alleged that the university officials allotted PhD seats to those who did not qualify. Moreover, violating the 25 per cent norm, the officials allotted 90 per cent of seats to government employees on a part-time basis and all the seats under the EWS quota to ineligible candidates by taking money from them, they alleged.

The students who secured second rank in Political Science and Biotechnology subjects were also not allotted seats. Moreover, the officials did not include the leftover seats in category-I to category-II, they remarked.