DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION and authorities of several institutes have tightened the noose around the members of Youth for Equality (Y4E). It appears that the administration is bent upon sealing their plans for an agitation against OBC reservation.
Students of the GSVM Medical College, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K), Rama Dental College and the students of other private engineering and management institutes are associated with the Y4E in the city and they have planned to stage dharna and demonstration at public places to mobilise the public support against reservation. But the district authorities put an undeclared ban on such agitations.
On the occasion of the Congress rally here on Tuesday, the Y4E activists had planned to stage dharna at the Phoolbagh, but the district administration had foiled their attempt. The district authorities with the help of GSVM and IIT heads did not allow the students to go outside the campus till the Congress president Sonia Gandhi left the rally site.
Even administration did not allow the students to hold the Press conference over the issue. According to the students, they were being forced to live under a ‘dictatorial rule’ and were being forced to file a writ in the court against the district administration and the institutes’ authorities. Activists said that they have already hired a senior advocate to plead their case before the High Court and also before the Supreme Court.
{{/usCountry}}Even administration did not allow the students to hold the Press conference over the issue. According to the students, they were being forced to live under a ‘dictatorial rule’ and were being forced to file a writ in the court against the district administration and the institutes’ authorities. Activists said that they have already hired a senior advocate to plead their case before the High Court and also before the Supreme Court.
{{/usCountry}}“No doubt we needed money for fighting legal battle but funds are being generated by the well wishers and the like-minded people outside the campus”, they added.
However, according to the authorities of the institute and the professional colleges they were not against the students’ agitation, but they were afraid that in case the agitation passed on to the hands of politicians the image of the institutes would be tarnished and more so each student would suffer academic loss. Above all, the prestigious companies, which regarded the students of certain institutes as committed professionals would be shocked to learn their involvement in the politics, which had nothing to do with engineering. These companies might loose their interest in giving placement to the students in future. This would cause a serious career loss to many of the students. As such students would not be allowed to take part in agitational activities, they said.