Assam Women’s University (AWU) Students are demanding the attention of the Narendra Modi-government to get a response for their ongoing protest protest against the state government’s decision to convert the university to a technical institute.
The students have been protesting on the Rowriah outskirts for the past four days but the Centre has given no response as yet. There was a 36-hour hunger strike for the second day after a ‘brief meeting’ with the Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at the Guest House of the Assam Agricultural University here failed to cut ice, according to Assam Tribune.
The students, with support from the Jorhat district unit of the AASU, since March 19 were carrying out the hunger strike in front of the Jorhat Deputy Commissioner’s office besides the AT Road.
The student political parties have now started a Twitter Campaign too against the BJP government. A girl of AWU tweeted: The Assam Women University is the first ever University of Northeast but Assam Government is taking up steps to degrade it from University to a Technical Institution.
A video of the student’s hunger-strike can be seen below: