Congress, BJP student wings back expelled IIT students

ROORKEE: Students expelled from IIT Roorkee recently for underperformance in exams have got support from political parties with the student wings of both Congress and BJP demanding their reinduction at the premier institute.

While NSUI today observed a fast outside the gates of IIT demanding reinduction of the 73 expelled students, ABVP staged a demonstration at the same venue yesterday in support of the demand.

"Playing with the future of students will not be allowed under any circumstances," Haridwar district NSUI President Sachin Chaudhry said.

During its demonstration outside IIT gate, ABVP shouted slogans against the senate which took the decision demanding its dissolution and reinduction of the expelled students.

Terming the IIT administration's decision as "unjust", ABVP's Garhwal division President Gaurav Sharma said the parishad will take the demands of the students to the Centre.

NSUI will also meet BJP's Haridwar MP Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank in Delhi on July 16 and hand him a memorandum demanding readmission of the expelled students.

BJP teachers' wing has also thrown its weight behind the expelled students with its district president Pradip Tyagi sending a memorandum to the Union Ministry of Human Resource demanding their reinduction.

"Most of the students are from poor families. The institute also had a role to play in their poor performance as it should have conducted special extra classes for underperforming students to help them score better which it did not," Tyagi said in the memorandum.

IIT Roorkee expelled as many as 73 students last week for scoring less than five CGPA in their second semester exams.