Hyderabad, March 27: Students unions have stepped up their ante against the AP Public Service Commission (APPSC) chairman Y Venkatrami Reddy. Hundreds of BC, SC and ST students today enforced a bandh on the Osmania University campus and blocked traffic for more than half-an-hour demanding the removal of the chairman for alleged irregularities in the APPSC appointments.
Students affiliated to various BC, SC and ST student unions enforced a bandh and took out a rally from the OU library to the Arts College where they burnt Venkatrami Reddy in effigy.
They later took out a rally to Law College and sat on the road blocking traffic.
The students alleged that the acts of Venkatrami Reddy had led to injustice to BC, SC and ST candidates. “Venkatrami Reddy’s bias in the interviews had led to a situation where BC, SC and ST candidates were denied jobs in open category. A judicial inquiry should be conducted into the irregularities of the chairman,’’ Telangana BC Vidyarthi Yuvajana Sangham president E Anjaneyulu Goud said.
“The Government should do justice to the candidiates who suffered due to the irregularities by the APPSC chairman,’’ another student leader P Krishna demanded.
Meanwhile, the student unions have reportedly decided to lay siege to the APPSC office, if the Government failed to take a decision on removing Venkatrami Reddy from the chairman post.
Police took more than 100 students into custody for blocking traffic and later let them off.
–Agencies