After a long time, once again the campus of Osmania university looked like a police camp reminiscing the days of Telangana movement. In the wake some students; defiance to go on their proposal to celebrate Beef Festival, police have beefed up security on the Campus to prevent students taking law and order into their hands. There is every possibility of clash breaking out two festivals of beef and pork by rival groups of students, police said. Hundreds of police have been deployed on the campus to keep watch on the movements of the students. Suspected organizers have already been rounded up the police. On Thursday morning about 16 students have been arrested by the police for trying to defy the prohibitory orders.
Meanwhile, some miscreants are said to have pelted stones at an RTC bus plying between Uppal and Mehdipatnam at the NCC gate. Police,who have taken control of the campus, closed all the gates to prevent outsider from sneaking into the campus. Scores of students belonging to ABVP reached the gates of Osmania University to protest against the beef festival.
“We have taken precautionary measures as per the directive of the High Court of Hyderabd.d The HC instructed us ensure law and order on the campus and the implementation of the lower court orders which banned all festivals till December 21,” East Zone deputy police commissioner R Ravinder told media.
It was during the height of Telangana movement that the police took over the campus leading to clashes between students and police. The campus remained literally a battle field for months as thousands of police deployed on the campus to prevent students coming out of their rooms in hostels in support of TS. Whenever the students tried to take out a rally police would swoop on them and the students would retaliate by pelting stones. For years, the Campus India’s one of the oldest universities remained under the control of the police and it the grip of tension.
Now, owing to the proposed beef festival and rivals’ pork festival and the threat of Govu puja, again police force has been deployed in a big way creating tense movements.
In another development, Goshamahal BJP MLA Raja Singh who threatened that Dadri would be re-enacted if beef festival was held on the campus, has been kept under house arrest as his proposed program has the potential to disturb the harmony in the city and on the campus. He also gave a call for Govu Seva Diwas to counter the beef festival.
