Classes resume at Hyderabad varsity

After a fortnight-long unrest over the suicide of dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, classes at the Hyderabad Central University resumed on Monday even as the agitating students continued the stir over their demands by launching a relay hunger strike.

“Classes are going on. Administration is also working,” a spokesperson for Joint Action Committee spearheading the campaign said. “We have set a deadline of ten days. We will continue our agitation in the form of relay hunger strike and organising seminars and rallies peacefully. People from outside also have come to express solidarity with our agitation. (V-C) Professor Appa Rao should go. There is no change in that demand,” JAC spokesperson Dickens Leonard said.

The SC/ST Faculty Forum, whose members had lent firm support to the agitation, said the teachers had also resumed academic and administrative responsibilities on the request of in-charge vice-chancellor M. Periasamy.