Allahabad:

Carrying flaming torches and shouting slogans, college students on the Allahabad College took out a large protest on Thursday towards the latest charge hike, in addition to demanding the reinstatement of the scholars’ union.

A gaggle of scholars beneath the banner of ‘Chhatrasangh Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti’ have been protesting the charge hike in Allahabad College. The college has elevated the under-graduate charges by virtually 400 per cent, they are saying.

Eight days in the past, a number of the college students launched a starvation strike. Yesterday, two of the scholars, Manjit Patel and Rahul Saroj, had been admitted to the hospital after their well being worsened.

Agency on their demand of a rollback of the elevated charges, the scholars marched via the campus and finally assembled in entrance of a statue of Independence motion icon Chandrashekhar Azad. The scholars took a pledge on the freedom fighter’s statue that the agitation would proceed till their calls for had been met.

The protest towards the charge hike motion received the assist of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra earlier this week.

Supporting the scholars, Ms Vadra tweeted on Monday, “The 400 per cent charge hike by the Allahabad College is one other anti-youth transfer by the BJP authorities.”

She added that kids from odd households from UP and Bihar examine on the college and “by rising the charges, the federal government will take away a serious supply of training from these youths”.

“The federal government ought to instantly withdraw the choice of accelerating the charges after listening to the scholars,” Ms Vadra wrote.

Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav too supported college students. Calling pupil unions “main a part of democracy”, Mr Yadav mentioned the college’s therapy of the protesting college students “is an emblem of hopelessness from the BJP authorities”.