HYDERABAD: While tents have been removed from the protest site at University of Hyderabad, the students are not yet ready to give up the cause. In a fresh turn of events, the JAC for social justice has made an appeal to the students and faculty on campus to donate clothes. A new tent will be stitched this time and it would include the clothes of the deceased Rohith Vemula as well.
“As the administration has stolen our tents and Babasaheb Ambedkar’s banners, we have decided to stitch our own tent with old clothes that will also include Rohith’s clothes,” said a message being reportedly circulated by the JAC members. JAC called for a meeting on Monday evening at the shopcom (protest site) to rebuild the Velivada.
To prevent the tents from being removed again, the members have decided to stay put at the site.
“It was an unauthorised structure and no permission was taken. We are not denying students their rights, we gave them prior notice and asked them to remove the tents within 48 hours. However, they did not comply. We waited for a week before taking it down.
We directed the security to remove the tent, and they might have selected the night time to avoid tension,” varsity spokesperson Vipin Srivastava said.