Even our mess fee has gone up but the CM’s promise of providing jobs for the youth has gone down the drain.” “His government at times, to soothe our feelings, puts out a notification for new jobs, but tactically delays announcement of results of tests and interviews. “KCR government’s Kamlnathan committee report on employment generation is gathering dust,” said Korvi Balakrishna Mudiraj, an engineering student who is now part of Telangana Vidyavanthula Vedika, which is seeking an alternative force. The CM, on his part, initially mocked at the Congress promise, calling it unrealistic, but later the TRS started sending out signals that it too was open to the idea. Sensing the gravity of unemployment, the Congress manifesto has promised a Rs 3,000 per month dole to jobless youth. Such was the anger in the campus that the Science Congress scheduled to be held in Osmania University had to be shifted out to Manipur,” said CH Venkat Rao, a postgraduate student who resides in Krishnaveni Hostel, where more than half century ago former PM PV Narasimha Rao had lived as a student. “Look at the irony – when we students agitated last year after Murli, an MSc student hailing from the CM’s own constituency, committed suicide here due to frustration over unemployment, the same TRS government sent police in the night to launch a crackdown on us. Rao has not made a single visit to the campus, barring one time when he had to mandatorily accompany then President Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate the centenary celebration of the university. A number of students said that after the TRS formed the government, the CM chose to disconnect with the same campus where he had accepted many a felicitation during the agitation. The main grouse of Yadav and other students is that the KCR government did not act on the agitation’s main demand – and the CM’s subsequent promise – of creating job opportunities. The jobs we sought are nowhere around, but KCR and his coterie have progressed a lot.” We students led a social agitation, which TRS and KCR milked and turned into a political agitation to ride to capture power. Sitting with a group of students in the modest Kaveri Hostel room, Naveenn Yadav, a PhD scholar in sociology who was an active participant in the agitation, said, “I was jailed for six months, and I am yet to get rid of the countless cases police slapped on me. Many are campaigning against the TRS, and many more planning to go home to vote against the TRS on December 7. Now the refrain among students is that TRS and its leader have let Telangana down on their promise of providing one job per family. The slogan that replayed as the ringtone for the Osmania student agitation then sought ‘Neelu-Nitula-Niyamakulu’ (waterland-jobs) for the residents of Telangana side from the “occupying Andhra settlers”. There is little excitement over the election campaign in the campus, which had witnessed violent agitation, months of shutdown, a curfew-like atmosphere for years up to 2014, killings of nearly half a dozen students and injury of many more in alleged police firing and lathicharge till the UPA regime gave in to the demand for a separate state. In a way, the pivotal role played by the Osmania University students was similar to the central role the All Assam Students Union (AASU) had played in the Assam agitation that led to the signing of the Assam Accord and catapulted the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) to power in Guwahati.įour and a half years on, there is a palpable sense of gloom and simmering discontent over lack of job opportunities among the students in Osmania University. HYDERABAD: The sprawling campus of the Osmania University was the hotbed of student agitation in the united Andhra Pradesh from 2009 – after the death of Congress chief minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash – that culminated in the creation of a separate Telangana state in 2014 and propelled the Telangana Rashtra Samithi to power with K Chandrashekar Rao as CM.
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