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Pro-quota movement on
THE PRO-RESERVATIONISTS stuck to their demands and continued their protests and meetings in Allahabad University (AU) to garner support. AU Student Union president Ajit Yadav urged the students to sink their difference and come together in favour of reservation. Yadav urged the students to unite and formulate a strategy for immediate and positive results.
THE PRO-RESERVATIONISTS stuck to their demands and continued their protests and meetings in Allahabad University (AU) to garner support. AU Student Union president Ajit Yadav urged the students to sink their difference and come together in favour of reservation. Yadav urged the students to unite and formulate a strategy for immediate and positive results. He said that many groups demanding reservation from AU authorities should target the Central Government for reservation. The reservations would be implemented in the varsity only after the Central Government issued directives. Yadav said that the demonstrations staged by the anti-reservationists in Delhi were guided by capitalists and industrialists and the students would have to face these capitalists and industrialists in their struggle for reservation.
Yadav said that the students should step forward and stage a demonstration in Delhi to support HRD Minister Arjun Singh in favour of reservation. The statements of former Prime Minister VP Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan and Sharad Yadav were encouraging and welcomed by the students.
Yadav urged the students to march towards Delhi and advised the student leaders to carry out contact programmes in hostels and delegacies to garner support for the demonstration.
Meanwhile, student leaders Savindra Yadav and Pravesh Singh Yadav continued the relay fast on the tenth day on Saturday in support of reservation and their five-point charter of demands. Those present on the occasion were Santosh Yadav, Amar Verma, Asif Anish, Ajay Bhaskar, Rajneesh Ratnakar, Aditya Vikram Singh and Anil Pal, among others.
Mushaira: An all India mushaira will be held to celebrate the centenary year of AU Muslim Hostel at MB House on Sunday.
AUU general secretary Suresh Yadav said that several former inmates of Muslim hostel, eminent personalities of the city and renowned poets would participate in the Mushaira. Rahat Indori, Manzar Bhopali, Anwar Jalapuri, Tahir Faraz, Iqbal, Asar and many local poets would participate in the mushaira. The programme has been organised by Saqib Mizan, Sharif Khan, Awaish Ahmed, Imtiaz Alwi, Khurshi, Jamshed, Nawab, Riyaz and others.
Programme: Pag-Dhwani-2006, a programme of former inmates of AU Pramda Charan Banerjee hostel was held on Saturday. The programme was presided over former inmate and Inspector General (IG) of Police Ambrish Chandra Sharma while former head of medieval history department Prof CV Tripathi, chief guest, inaugurated the programme followed by Saraswati Vandana by the inmates.
In his welcome speech, hostel superintendent Dr Ramendra Kumar said that such programmes helped in improving the academic atmosphere of the hostel. Sharma released a souvenir on the occasion.
