Presidency students on hunger strike over hostel accommodation

A section of the agitating students of Presidency University here began indefinite hunger strike from Monday night demanding immediate accommodation in the under renovation Hindu hostel.

Altogether 50 students have been on a sit-in demonstration at the university campus since August 3 and eight have started the indefinite fast.

"The fast began at the campus portico from 9 pm and it will continue till the authorities take initiative to shift the 50 students to two blocks of Hindu hostel immediately," Ujan, one of the agitating students, told PTI after a general body meeting of students in the campus.

When contacted, a university spokesman said, "We have already explained the situation to the students. We had promised them that the Hindu Hostel can be thrown open to them only after PWD declares it fit for use after renovation. We can only hope they will understand the situation."