The deadlock on the issue of evening classes continued when the DAV College re-opened after winter vacation on Tuesday. The students forced a lock down of the college amid heavy police bandobast.
When the college opened after a vacation of 15 days on Tuesday, the students belonging to the NSUI, Aryan, and other groups forced closure of the college. The students, who had to fill the examination forms for 1st year regular courses had to suffer due to the strike of the students. The leader of NSUI, Mohan Bhandari said that the students would continue the agitation till admissions and studies in the evening classes in the College starts. He claimed that in the agitation on Tuesday all student groups barring the Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) participated. Bhandari said that the college administration and the management are not serious on the issue of evening classes and claimed that the letter supposedly written by the college management to the state government has not yet reached its destination.
The college administration was cautious on Tuesday after the incident of arson in college campus on December 21 due to which large number of policemen was deployed in the college to prevent any untoward incident. The ABVP leaders meanwhile kept themselves away from the agitation. The President of DAV student union and ABVP leader Paras Goyal told The Pioneer that the ABVP is fully committed for the demand to start the evening classes but added that the agitation should not mar the academic environment in the regular morning classes.
The issue of evening classes in DAV College has got tangled due to different views of DAV college management, the state government and teachers of the college. The state government is insisting that the temporary teachers for the evening classes should be recruited by a committee headed by the district magistrate while the college management considers this as infringement on its right to appoint teachers in the college. The college Principal Devendra Bhasin tried to start the classes by involving the regular teachers of the college but they refused to teach in these classes.