Students skipped classes to take part in the rallies to support Anna Hazare's campaign
Many city colleges wore a deserted look on Thursday as students took to the streets to express their solidarity with Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption. Students skipped classes to take part in the rallies.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party, had called a bandh in the city colleges.
The call went unheeded. However, college managements allowed the students to participate in protest rallies to vent their voice against corruption.
“Officially, the college is open. But if students want to participate in the protest rallies, they are free to go ahead,’’ vice-principal of Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC), JR Lanjekar, told DNA.
However, ABVP state joint secretary Shailendra Dalvi claimed that several colleges had responded to it’s call for a strike.
“These colleges remained closed as the students took part in the rallies. The other colleges too have been supportive and the students have been given the liberty to contribute in their fight against corruption,’’ he said.
Students of SNDT women’s university held a protest rally which started from their college to Veer Savarkar Smarak on Karve Road.
“As students, we feel that we have to take active part in the fight against corruption. We all are here to support Anna Hazare and the Jan Lokpal Bill,’’ said Shraddha Marathe, a student.
At Fergusson College (FC), nearly 500 students, led by their teachers, were found shouting slogans and displaying posters in support of the Jan Lokpal Bill on the college premises.
“We have been granted permission by the college authorities to carry out the rally in support of Hazare. We want the Jan Lokpal Bill to be passed by the government,’’ said Manoj Munde, first year MA student of Fergusson College. The students started their rally at 11 am from the college, from where they marched to the collector’s office. “The police have been supportive and we have assured them that we won’t be disrupting traffic,’’ professor of Marathi in FC, Sanjay Kohli, told DNA.
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