Uttar Pradesh Congress staged a dharna over atrocities on blind students of Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University and the cane charge after students tried to raise their demands.
Party MlC Deepak Singh, who sat on the dharna to protest administrative excesses on blind students in lucknow on Wednesday, alleged that the Yogi government was violating all norms to harass students and even blind students were not being spared.
Citing an incident of last Thursday wherein protesting blind students were brutally caned by the police in the name of maintaining law and order. Several students were injured in the charge and 10 who suffered serious wounds had to be shifted to a hospital.
Accusing the state government for being insensitive towards blind students, Singh said that Congress will always stand by the victims and will take their fight forward till justice was meted out.
The MlC alleged that as per reports, girl students also faced sexual harassment in hostels by the administration but the government had turned a Neson’s eye towards it.
Singh said that the Congress will not only support the demands of the blind students, but would also continue to protest against the state government till Yogi Adityanath resigned from the post of Chief Minister.
The students, who also sat on the dharna along with the Congress MlC, alleged that the blind students were not being given text bookss on Braille nor was there any Braille library in the university.