HYDERABAD: Protests staged by scholar teams in Osmania College continued on Monday in opposition to authorities denying permission for Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's go to to the campus on Could 7.
Police arrested leaders of the Osmania College Joint Motion Committee (OU JAC) once they staged a protest in entrance of Arts School on the campus.
Alleging that the college authorities denied permission for Rahul's go to on the behest of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) authorities, they demanded that the Congress chief be allowed to go to the campus to work together with the scholars.
Police arrested the JAC leaders and shifted them to police station. Police have beefed up safety on the campus in view of the persevering with protests by scholar teams.
Giant variety of policemen was deployed within the campus after Sunday's incident through which proestors led by NSUI state president Venkat Balmoor stormed into the OU administrative constructing and tried to barge into the locked Vice Chancellor's workplace.
They broke glass panes of the door, elevating slogans in opposition to the Vice-Chancellor and the federal government, alleging the Vice Chancellor was performing on the behest of the Chief Minister Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao.
They have been booked for illegal meeting, assault, rioting, trespass and stopping public servants from discharging their duties.
On a criticism by a lady police constable, the arrested NSUI leaders have been additionally charged with making an attempt to outrage her modesty.
Venkat Balmoor and 17 others have been produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace, who despatched them to judicial custody for 14 days.
Congress MP and incharge of social gathering affairs in Telangana, Manickam Tagore has condemned the arrest of NSUI leaders and demanded their rapid launch.
Leaders of scholar teams have been additionally arrested on Sunday once they staged a protest at Minister's Quarters in Banjara Hills.
When Congress MLA Jagga Reddy went to the police station to name on the arrested college students and threatened to go to the OU campus, he was detained on the police station.
Jagga Reddy had final week approached the college authorities in search of permission for Rahul Gandhi's go to to the campus. The college, nonetheless, refused permission for a similar citing their earlier determination to not permit any public assembly on the campus.
The Congress leaders, nonetheless, claimed that Rahul Gandhi's go to was not political. They stated he would go to the hostel and mess and work together with college students to find out about their issues. They maintained that he has been visiting universities in several elements of the nation.
MP Uttam Kumar Reddy introduced that Rahul Gandhi will go forward with a go to to the college.
He slammed the TRS authorities for denying permission for the go to. "When BJP leaders can go to Osmania College and deal with conferences and when birthdays of KCR and KTR could be celebrated, why cannot our chief go to the campus. Is it the property of CM KCR?" he requested.
He argued that the go to by Rahul Gandhi shouldn't be political in nature as he plans to go across the hostels and mess and likewise work together with college students to find out about the issue of unemployment.
State Congress chief Revanth Reddy stated since Osmania College performed a key function in first and second section of Telangana motion, Rahul Gandhi is eager to go to the campus to work together with college students and collect particulars.
"Why is KCR scared?" he queried.