The ugly face of goondaism in the name of regionalism once again reared its head in the Osmania University campus on Saturday, when students manhandled academicians present in the campus for B.Ed spot valuation.
The Osmania Students Joint Action Committee had warned evaluators from non-Telangana regions to leave the campus before the spot valuation for B.Ed began, giving them 2 hours to leave the campus.
Some of the lecturers took the warning seriously and left the campus, while others lingered on.
After the 2-hour "deadline" expired, the TSJAC leaders marched up to the evaluators and picked an argument over why they had not heeded to the deadline. The argument reached a flashpoint soon enough, and the activists manhandled the evaluators.
The Osmania university police soon rushed to the spot, and brought the situation under control.
The evaluators said that they had come for the spot evaluations since the task was allotted to them. They said that it was unfair for them to be targeted over regional biases.
Meanwhile, student leaders demanded that the spot valuations be conducted only by evaluators from the Telangana region.
Talking to INN, TSJAC leader Srihari denied that the non-Telangana evaluators were manhandled, but also maintained that the evaluations should be carried out only by evaluators from the Telangana region.
Courtesy: INN
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