The protest was launched on Saturday by the JNU Students Union with ten members sitting on a hunger strike after organising a march in the campus.
NEW DELHI: Disciplinary action against 11 students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University for allegedly misbehaving with a top varsity official has triggered protests in the campus with the student's union launching a relay hunger strike demanding revocation of the punitive measure.
The protest was launched on Saturday by the JNU Students Union with ten members, including its president Dhananjay Tripathi and Secretary Sandeep Singh, sitting on a hunger strike after organising a march in the campus.
The JNUSU strike comes in the wake of the varsity rusticating seven students for separate terms and imposing a fine of Rs 2,000 on three leaders for allegedly gheraoing Registrar Avais Ahmed on February 19 during a protest demanding minimum wages for daily workers.
Another student, who already completed her course, has been declared "out of bounds".
"By taking severe action against student activists who were fighting for minimum wages for contract labourers, the administration has shown scant regard for the democratic opinion of the entire student community," Tripathi said.
He said the students' union is demanding immediate reversal of these punishments.
Singh claimed that the JNU administration was paying only Rs 80 to contractual labourers instead of the minimum wage of Rs 158 as stated by the government. "We are being victimised for raising genuine issues," he alleged.
The 11 students along with four staff association members were suspended in February after the gherao.
University officials said disciplinary action comes in the backdrop of the student's misbehaviour with the Registrar and not for raising issues regarding daily wagers.
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