LU students who protested against CM denied admission
Candidates go on indefinite hunger strike demanding admission of all who took entrance test
LUCKNOW : Those students who had waved black flags at chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s convoy outside the Lucknow University campus in June last year were denied admission by the university administration this year, claimed the protesters. Two candidates, Pooja Shukla and Gaurav Tripathi, sat on indefinite hunger strike on Monday demanding admission of all those students who took the entrance test and their results were allegedly held back for waving blacks flags at the CM.
LUCKNOW: Those who waved black flags at chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s convoy outside the Lucknow University campus in June last year were denied admission by the university administration this year, claimed protesters.
Two candidates, Pooja Shukla and Gaurav Tripathi, sat on indefinite hunger strike on Monday demanding admission of all those students who took the entrance test and their results were allegedly held back for waving blacks flags at the CM’s fleet.
The student leaders alleged that the university was harassing them on the state government’s direction. The protestors on hunger strike threatened that they would prefer to die, if the varsity refused to give them admission.
On June 7 last year, a number of student leaders belonging to the AISA and SP Chhatra Sabha obstructed the CM’s fleet and waved black flags at him, opposing his visit to LU. The police arrested 11 of them.
Pooja Shukla was among those who waved black flags at the CM’s fleet.
“But I was not a student of LU then. This year, I applied for MA in Women Studies. But they withheld my entrance result because I opposed Yogi Adityanath’s visit to the campus,” claimed Pooja.
“The university administration is trying to trample the democratic rights of students. They are not allowing us to raise our voice against arbitrary fee hike,” said Gaurav Tripathi, who is also on hunger strike.
In view of what constituted a breach of the chief minister’s security, LU had suspended eight students, debarring them from all varsity facilities. The students had breached the CM’s security by jumping before his fleet holding black flags.
LU had withheld the PG entrance test result of more than 20 candidates because of their prior involvement in indiscipline, including student leaders who had shown black flags to chief minister during his visit to the campus last year and those who held vice-chancellor hostage.
Officials said the students had been expelled from the university but their expulsion was revoked after they gave an undertaking that they would not seek admission to LU after completing graduation.
But they still applied for postgraduate courses and hence their result was withheld, they added.
LU spokesperson NK Pandey
said, “We have the written undertaking of candidates whose expulsion was revoked when they agreed not to enrol in any other course in future.
The candidates denied admission include those who were involved in repeated incidents of indiscipline and were issued notices for vandalising mess property, holding officials hostage, showing black flags to chief minister and staging protests.”