The students residing in two hostels of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have started an indefinite sit-in outside vice-chancellor Prof Lalji Singhs residence on Tuesday against the administrations decision to shift the occupants of two hostels to other hostels in summer. Around 70 research students who reside in Birla hostel and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel hostel started the sit-in. Prof Rajesh Singh,chairman of BHUs press cell,said that the university administration had asked the hostelers to shift into other hostels for summer because these hostels needed to be repaired. The protesters,however,said that the these hostels require no repairing. There are other hostels which need immediate repairing but the administration has turned them into summer hostels,they said. The sit-in comes days after a violent protest by the Allahabad University hostelers,demanding that the hostel should not be closed for summer. The agitating students at Allahabad University had held the V-C hostage for more than 30 hours in his office and later the police had to rescue him.
