Over half-a-dozen villages and four Gurgaon colleges Monday extended their support to Pinky Chauhan, who set herself afire last month to protest “intentional” poor marking by her college management, and decided to boycott Wednesday’s Haryana Assembly election.
Residents of Kasan village, near Manesar, to which Pinky belonged, had Sunday decided to boycott the Oct 15 state polls. The panchayat of over half-a-dozen villages, including Bass Kushla, Dhana and Aliyar was organised in Kasan village Monday. Students of four Gurgaon colleges affiliated to Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak also attended the community meeting.
“Students of Government College for Women sector 14, DSD Government College, Government College sector 9 and University Institute of law and Management Studies also decided to abstain from voting if justice was not given to Pinky," the deceased's brother Arun Chauhan, an engineering student, told IANS.
Over 20,000 students study in these colleges. Pinky was among the over 1,000 students protesting against the management of the Government Post-Graduate College for Women near Sector 14 here and MDU, Rohtak, for “intentionally” giving them low marks.