Video: Allahabad University Students' Huge March Against "400% Fee Hike"
NDTV
A group of students under the banner of 'Chhatrasangh Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti' have been protesting the fee hike in Allahabad University.
Carrying flaming torches and shouting slogans, students at the Allahabad University took out a massive protest on Thursday against the recent fee hike, as well as demanding the reinstatement of the students' union.
A group of students under the banner of 'Chhatrasangh Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti' have been protesting the fee hike in Allahabad University. The university has increased the under-graduate fees by almost 400 per cent, they say.
Eight days ago, some of the students launched a hunger strike. Yesterday, two of the students, Manjit Patel and Rahul Saroj, were admitted to the hospital after their health worsened.
Firm on their demand of a rollback of the increased fees, the students marched through the campus and eventually assembled in front of a statue of Independence movement icon Chandrashekhar Azad. The students took a pledge at the freedom fighter's statue that the agitation would continue until their demands were met.
