The students protested against the transfer of Madhav College of Arts and Commerce at Dewas Gate, Ujjain to the building elsewhere. Slogans shouted slogans against Higher Education Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav.
City Congress president, Youth Congress and NSUI officials and activists also opposed it. In terms of security, a large police force was present. The students jammed demonstrations outside Chamunda Mata Square, Dewasgate Square and College. Students took chairs out of the college and broke it by taking it outside the gate.
Although the entire area became a police camp during this period, a fierce student agitation took place in the presence of the police.
Ujjain’s more than 130-year-old Government Madhav College once again became the arena of politics.
In fact, on the orders of Higher Education Department, Government Madhav College at Dewas Gate is being shifted to the new building of Kalidas Kanya College located on Ankapat Marg, the same should be opposed by the Congress Party and its student wings NSUI and Youth Congress, including students of the college. In the afternoon on Wednesday, NSUI and Youth Congress officials and activists including City Congress President Mahesh Soni reached Madhav College and demonstrated here shouting slogans against Higher Education Minister Dr Mohan Yadav. Although a large number of police forces were present during this period.
Shifting of college furniture could not take place amid political developments that lasted more than 2 to 3 hours.
Students appeared fierce during the protest, blocked the Chamunda Mata intersection and shouted slogans against the state government and the higher education minister, after which the students reached the Dewas Gate intersection and burnt the effigy of Higher Education Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav here.
After this, the students brought furniture from inside the college and came out of the gate and started breaking. About half a dozen plastic chairs were broken here. Seeing the fierce form of the students, the movement of the people stopped and traffic remained closed for some time.