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AU student leaders hit back with vengeance
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) student leaders hit back with a vengeance on Wednesday. Outmanoeuvred and driven on the back foot by the AU Vice-Chancellor's 'Peace March' a day before, the student leaders held demonstrations right at the entrance of the VC's office, shouted anti-varsity administration slogans and demanded cancellation of the entire Post-Graduate Admission Test (PGAT)-2006.
Stage demonstration outside VC’s office
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) student leaders hit back with a vengeance on Wednesday.
Outmanoeuvred and driven on the back foot by the AU Vice-Chancellor's 'Peace March' a day before, the student leaders held demonstrations right at the entrance of the VC's office, shouted anti-varsity administration slogans and demanded cancellation of the entire Post-Graduate Admission Test (PGAT)-2006.
On a day when the VC Prof Rajen Harshe preferred to stay away from his chamber and function from his camp office itself, the student leaders found support even from a large number of female students and hostellers in their demand for quashing the PGAT and re-conducting it.
Student leaders started to gather at the Union Hall right since morning.
Meanwhile, a large number of female students led by Girls' Hostel Representative Pallavi Singh arrived at the VC's office with a memorandum and demanded to meet the Vice-Chancellor. After being told that the VC was unavailable, Pallavi Singh and her supporters sat on a dharna right outside the VC's office and started shouting anti-varsity administration slogans.
Within no time, the girls were joined by their male counterparts and the situation started to resemble the Monday's scene that had motivated the VC to opt for the Peace March the next day.
Repeated efforts of the AU Proctor Prof Jata Shankar to convince the students to hand over the memorandum to him and call off their agitation failed to cut ice. The day saw repeated heated debates and arguments between student leaders and the Proctor.
The students kept demanding to meet the VC and even held a meeting right outside the VC's office.
They repeatedly claimed that the PGAT question papers of all subjects were leaked and demanded that the varsity administration re-conduct the tests and have an in-depth probe into the paper leak to identify the culprits responsible for the act.
Terming the VC's 'Peace March' a mere stunt to divert the attention of the students from the real problems, the agitating students pointed out various problems of hostels to press home their point.
