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Presidency University students sit on fast over hostels
He said the students were now being forced to go for fast in the coming festive season.
Kolkata: A section of the agitating students of Presidency University here began indefinite hunger strike from Monday night demanding immediate accommodation in the under renovation Hindu hostel.
Altogether 50 students have been on a sit-in demonstration at the university campus since August 3 and eight have started the indefinite fast.
“The fast began at the campus portico from 9 pm and it will continue till the authorities take initiative to shift the 50 students to two blocks of Hindu hostel immediately,” Ujan, one of the agitating students, told PTI after a general body meeting of students in the campus.
When contacted, a university spokesman said, “We have already explained the situation to the students. We had promised them that the Hindu Hostel can be thrown open to them only after PWD declares it fit for use after renovation. We can only hope they will understand the situation.”
Ayan Chakraborty, an activist of students' body Independent Consolidation (IC), said a part of the corridor of the university building has been turned into a makeshift hostel during past two months and a number of students fell sick staying in open verandah.
He said the students were now being forced to go for fast in the coming festive season.
