Hyderabad, August 30: In Hyderabad The Telangana issue has erupted again, with some students of the Osmania University (OU) chasing away lecturers from outside Telangana region off the varsity campus.
The students insisted they should not participate in the evaluation of BEd answer sheets.
The OU student’s Joint Action Committee (JAC) staged a protest at the campus and gave an hour’s notice to lecturers from other regions to leave the campus.
After the deadline expired, the students beat up one lecturer and chased away three others.
The JAC also gave an ultimatum that all the lecturers from outside Telangana region should be sent back by the end of this month, failing which they will resort to direct action.
Students of Andhra University in Visakhapatnam and many other universities burnt effigies of the OU students.
The JACs of all universities have given a call for a bandh on Monday.
Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan, who is also chancellor of OU, called for a detailed report on the incident by Sunday evening.
-PTI