Anti-quota protest affected the academic activities in Banaras Hindu University here on Tuesday.
Infuriated over the introduction of Reservation Bill in Parliament extending 27 per cent reservation to backward class students in government funded premier academic institutions, the students of BHU, under the banner of ‘Youth for Equality’, boycotted their classes and took out a massive rally this evening.
Raising anti-Arjun Singh and anti-government slogans, around 200 students took out a massive rally amid heavy rain from BHU Main Gate which, after passing from Ravidas Gate, Sankat Mochan, Manas Mandir, Durga Kund, Assi, culminated at BHU Main Gate.
Traffic on the busy Durga Kund-Lanka Road was affected due to the rally. Heavy police force and security personnel of BHU Proctorial Board were deployed to avoid any untoward incident.
The students were demanding immediate reversal of Union Government's move to introduce 27 per cent reservation in premier academic institutes including IIMs, IITs and AIIMS. The processionists said they had observed a mass-boycott of classes to show that students of all the streams in BHU were united against the reservation scheme of the Union government.
Earlier, students of almost all the 15 faculties including, Law, Science, Social Science, Arts, Commerce, Management Studies and three institutes such as Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Institute of Technology (IT) and Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS) and Mahila Mahavidyalaya boycotted their classes to protest against the issue.
{{/usCountry}}Earlier, students of almost all the 15 faculties including, Law, Science, Social Science, Arts, Commerce, Management Studies and three institutes such as Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Institute of Technology (IT) and Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS) and Mahila Mahavidyalaya boycotted their classes to protest against the issue.
{{/usCountry}}It may be noted that students of IT-BHU also had boycotted their classes and took out a rally against enhancing reservation in higher academic institutes outside the BHU on August 25 this month. Members of Resident Doctor's Association (RDA) and Medical Students Association (MSA) of IMS-BHU and students of some other faculties had taken out a massive rally on August 24 in the evening.