Brace up for students’ jam on streets today

Brace up for students’ jam on streets today

AIDSO activists will hold a ‘Vidhana Soudha Chalo’ rally which will culminate in a public meeting to be addressed by freedom fighter H S Doreswamy.

Deccan Herald

Stay off City roads after 10 am on Monday, if you don’t want traffic jams to add to your Monday morning blues.

Several student groups have threatened to hold rallies and demonstrations on Monday morning in an exhibition of student power ahead of the Education Ministers’ conference that begins Monday afternoon. The groups are demanding a “student-friendly” Central legislation to regulate the admissions to and fees of professional BE, MBBS and BDS courses.

One group is even holding a rally in memory of Prathiba and Mamatha, the two students who purportedly committed suicide in the wake of the CET controversy last year.

Left organisations including the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), the All India Students’ Federation (AISF) and the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) will hold separate rallies, all in the heart of the City.

AIDSO activists will hold a ‘Vidhana Soudha Chalo’ rally from Chiklalbagh to the Central College grounds (behind old Central Jail) from 10 am to 11:30 am. The rally will culminate in a public meeting to be addressed by freedom fighter H S Doreswamy.

Apart from demanding a Central legislation that does not bow to the private managements’ lobby, AIDSO will demand that the legislation, when it is passed, be applicable to students who are already enrolled in various professional courses.
SFI plans two rallies from 10 am on -- the Mamatha Vahini Rally from City Railway Station and the Pratibha Vahini Rally from BMS Women’s College in Basavanagudi.

The two rallies will culminate at the Government RC College at 12.30 pm and stage a demonstration. SFI activists plan to meet Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh to present a memorandum on professional admissions too.

AISF activists will extend their demonstrations to all district and taluk headquarters on Monday and Tuesday. A delegation will meet Chief Minister N Dharam Singh and Mr Arjun Singh too, to urge for curbs on commercialisation of education.
Activists of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat will hold rallies from different parts concluding at the Town Hall junction at 10 am.

Delegations will meet Ministers of other States to recommend what stand to adopt at the meeting, based on the experts’ suggestions that had been put forward during the round-table conference which was organised by ABVP last week.

AVOID...

* Majestic
*Town Hall junction
*Seshadri Road
*Palace Road