Even as candidates filed their nominations for the Students’ Union elections in the State on Saturday, violence rocked many colleges across the State.
Tension erupted in the BJB Autonomous College after the authorities declared the college’s closure sine die and cancelled Students’ Union polls. Staging a demonstration against the decision of the college authorities, the students blocked road disrupting vehicular communications in the stretch of the road in front of the college from the Kalpana Square to the Ravi Talkies Square.
Earlier in the morning, several students were seen vacating the hostels. The road blockade was withdrawn with intervention of the police after hours.
Similarly, in the SCS College in Puri, two rival groups of students fought a pitched battle. Police forces were deployed to control the unruly situation.
Similarly, in Alarnath Vocation College in Brahmagiri, bombs were hurled by unidentified miscreants. While one bomb exploded, another live bomb was seized by the police.
After the college authorities cancelled the elections, the students resorted to a road blockade.
A Democratic Students’ Organisation (DSO)-supported candidate was allegedly attacked by a group of students at the Hinjilicut College in Ganjam district over filing of nomination papers.
The student sustained injuries in the attack following which DSO supporters staged a road blockade in front of the college.
In the Dhamnagar College, violence erupted during filing of nominations after which the college authorities declared sine die.