Allahabad University students demonstrat🌃ing against the fee hike burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Eꦇducation Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on the occasion of Dussehra on Wednesday.
The group of students are protesting the fee hike at the varsity, alle💟gedly by al🌜most 400 times for undergraduate courses.
Students' Union vice-preꦕsident Akhilesh Yadav told reporters that they burned the effigie♐s of Modi, Pradhan and vice-chancellor Sangeeta Srivastava as a mark of protest on Vijayadashami. He also called them "arrogant".
Yadav🅰 said they had been sitting on a hunger strike for 30 days but noཧ heed was paid to them.
Manish Kumar, secretary of the All India Students' Association's Allahabad University unit, said, "We burnt the effigy of the prime minist🐲er, education minister and the vice-chancellor against the way the fees have been increased."
However, due to the Dussehra holiday, there were no students apart from those agitating o🌊n ca🎐mpus.
On ﷺTuesday, the protesting students threatened ಌto expand their agitation after talks with the university administration failed.
The meeting between the university administration and the students' union over the fee hike, which lasted for about two-and-a-half hour⭕s, was a "complete failure", Yadav had said after the talks
