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Lathi-charge on students draws flak

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA, FEB. 12. Police have drawn criticism for the lathi-charge on volunteers of the All-India Students' Federation (AISF) and students at Jewargi on Wednesday.

Jewargi town observed a bandh today. Political parties except the Congress supported the bandh call and organised protests. Hundreds of people who took out a procession staged a four-hour-long rasta roko on the Gulbarga-Bangalore State Highway.

The president of the AISF, Shoukat Ali Alur, said a delegation of the AISF State Committee would meet the Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, and submit a memorandum demanding a judicial investigation of the lathi-charge and the immediate suspension of the Deputy Commissioner, Anjum Parvez, and the Superintendent of Police, K. Ramachandra Rao, for alleged police atrocities.

Among political parties which participated in the protest at Jewargi including the BJP, Janata Dal (Secular), All-India Progressive Janata Dal, Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Communist Party of India (CPI), and CPI(M). Various student organisations and the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti also participated. Party leaders submitted a memorandum to the tahsildar blaming the Home Minister, M. Mallikarjun Kharge, and the Public Works Minister, N. Dharam Singh, for the untoward incidents in Jewargi on Wednesday. They alleged that students were beaten up in front of the two Ministers.

Protesters burnt the effigy of Mr. Dharam Singh, who represents Jewargi constituency in the Assembly, and demanded the resignation of Mr. Kharge and Mr. Singh.

In Gulbarga, activists of the AISF and the Kaigarika Tarabetidarara Sangha staged a protest and burnt effigies of Mr. Kharge and Mr. Singh.

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