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AIDSO stages protest

Unhappy: Members of the AIDSO staging a dharna in Raichur on Saturday.

Raichur: Members of the district unit of the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) took out a procession and staged a dharna here on Friday.

They were protesting against the refusal to admit to the fifth semester students who had passed all subjects in the first and second semesters but had some subjects to pass in the third and fourth semesters.

About 500 students from various degree colleges in Raichur, who boycotted classes, participated in the procession, that went from Ambedkar Circle and reached the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

They staged a dharna and submitted a memorandum addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of Gulbarga University.

Veeresh N.S., vice-president of the State unit of the AIDSO, said that the existing norms under the semester system had affected the interests of degree students seeking admissions to the fifth semester.

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