Telangana: PDSU, CPI (M) condemn lathi charge on UoH students, burn CM Revanth’s effigy

Say the decision to auction 400 acres of land belonging to HCU in favour of corporate companies must be stopped

Khammam: As part of the PDSU State Committee’s call, the union Khammam district committee staged a protest and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at SR&BGNR College here on Wednesday condemning the lathi charge on students at University of Hyderabad.

PDSU leaders Namala Azad and Venkatesh said that Revanth Reddy, who when in opposition campaigned that the previous government in Telangana had destroyed democracy and displayed dictatorship, has been resorting to even more restraint and arrogance after coming to power.

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The decision to auction 400 acres of land belonging to HCU in favour of corporate companies must be stopped. It was shameful that the government has not backed down despite the students’ agitation for the last ten days against the decision and lathi charged students, including the girls.

Revanth Reddy and Minister Sridhar Babu have made extremely malicious statements in the Assembly towards the students and the society that demanded that the university lands should not be sold. The police forces, JCBs and bulldozers should be evacuated from the campus, they demanded.

In a similar protest, CPI (M) State leaders P Venkateswara Rao and K Venkateswara Rao demanded that the illegal cases filed against CPM leaders and students who questioned the auction of HCU lands must be dropped.

CPI (M) leaders and students took out a protest rally and burnt an effigy of the government. The leaders wanted the lands to be used for new buildings, hostels and academic purposes in the future and the lands be allocated to the university itself.