Nationwide protests by students

PUNE: The students of FTII on Tuesday sat on a day-long hunger strike outside the institute’s gate here. “We are in solidarity with students protesting the death of Rohit Vemula, and as many as eight students from the Film and Television Institute of India have sat on hunger strike for a day,” FTII Students’ Association president Harishankar Nachimuthu said. 

AHMEDABAD: Around 50 dalit students of Central University of Gujarat (CUG) gathered near the entrance of the university on Tuesday to condemn the alleged stern action of Hyderabad Central University, which according to them, led to the suicide of Vemula, a Ph.D student. Terming the suicide as an “institutional murder”, they demanded a free and fair inquiry into the matter. 

PHAGWARA: The activists of Punjab Ambedkar Sena Moolnivasi took out a protest march and burnt effigy of Union Minister Smriti Irani and demanded sacking of Union MoS for Labour Bandaru Dattatreya over the suicide on Sunday by a dalit scholar in University of Hyderabad. 

Led by the Sena’s state President Harbhajan Suman, and supported by BSP, the protesters began the march from Ambedkar Park in Hargobindnagar. They converged at on NH-1 and burnt Irani’s effigy briefly disrupting the traffic, the police said.