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‘Non-local' candidates targeted again

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T-JAC students obstruct academic consultants' interviews at MGU in Nalgonda

Protest staged opposing participation of “non-local” candidates in the interviews
Commotion following protesters entering college and verifying certificates of some candidates

NALGONDA: For the second consecutive day, ‘non-local' lecturers and candidates were targeted by Telangana students JAC and the interviews obstructed for academic consultants' posts at Mahatma Gandhi University at Panagal in Nalgonda district on Sunday.

Tension prevailed on the Mahatma Gandhi University campus as the activists of the JAC first staged a demonstration opposing the participation of “non-local” candidates from other regions in the interviews. On Saturday too, “non-local” lecturers evaluating examination papers of B.Ed. course were attacked by JAC students at Osmania University campus.

Slogans raised

The Mahatma Gandhi University had notified tenure-based academic consultant vacancies and called the eligible candidates to attend the interviews at the PG College on the campus. As the interviews commenced, pro-Telangana activists arrived at the spot and started raising slogans asking “non-locals” from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions to leave the premises. Commotion prevailed when a section of the protesters entered the college and verified the certificates of some of the candidates in a bid to ascertain their local/non-local status.

They found a person aged about 50 years to be a “non-local” candidate and asked him to leave, sources said. But the person reportedly claimed that he was from Hyderabad and arrived there in pursuit of a job. However, the protesters insisted that he leave the interview hall.

Sources said that two more “non-local” candidates too abstained from the interviews due to the protest.

When contacted, University Registrar K. Mutyam Reddy said that subject experts from Hyderabad conducted the interviews for selection of academic consultants in six departments in the university for the current academic year. “Though some student activists staged a dharna in front of the college, the interviews were held as per schedule. We did not receive any complaint from any candidates about the obstruction," he claimed.

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