Alleging that in-charge Vice-Chancellor Elluri Shiva Reddy was behaving like an agent of the Seemandhra employees on campus, the Telangana employees of the Potti Sriramulu Telugu University demanded that the state government remove him as Vice-Chancellor and divide the university immediately.
The Telangana employees staged a dharna in front of the VC's chamber on Friday and raised slogans against him and the Registrar of the university. They demanded that the government immediately remove them both from their posts and cancel the illegal promotions given by them.
They also demanded the removal of all the consultants and the sending back of those employees who had come from the AP university PG centers and render justice to the employees selected through the Selection Committee 2000.
They also urged the government to give jobs to the family members of Mahbub Ali and Paramatma, who died recently, on humanitarian grounds.
The Telangana employees alleged that the VC was encouraging Seemandhra employees and insulting the Telangana staff saying the latter did not know anything.
They also alleged that the VC appointed an Andhra employee to a key position stating that no Telangana employee knew English.
"My question is if Shiva Reddy really belongs to Telangana, how can he say that no Telangana employee in the Telugu University knows English?" an employee who did not want to reveal his name asked.
"First of all the VC himself doesn't know English and is scared of speaking in English, and was trying to cover up his lapse by venting his ire on Telangana employees," he added.
Reacting to the allegations of the university's Telangana employees, Shiva Reddy said he didn't belong to Rayalaseema. "I am a pucca Telanganite, hailing from Kollapur of the Mahabubnagar district. But the Telangana employees are branding me as pro-Seemandhra. It is hurting me a lot. I participated in the 1969 Telangana movement. How can I show discrimination towards them?" he said. (NSS)