HYDERABAD: Just when the dust seemed to have settled at the Osmania University following the controversial beef festival, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal on Thursday conducted a ritual at a temple adjacent the Arts College to purify the campus. Calling it a symbolic move, the VHP and Bajrang Dal activists conducted a Saraswati Puja at the temple near the Arts College and a Gomatha Puja at the Kanakadurga Nagalakshmi Temple at Basheerbagh. Cow slaughter has been banned long time back, but the government has repeatedly failed to implement it. We pray that the government acts soon, said Nomula Vinod, president, Bajrang Dal Greater Hyderabad. He further clarified,we do not oppose beef eating by individuals but oppose the same at a sacred place like the university. The puja has been conducted to pray that God may give good conscience to the students who were misled by anti-Hindu elementsthat organised the beef festival on the campus. The ABVP students denied that a purification ritual was conducted on the campus. The puja was initially planned here but the venue was changed to Basheerbagh. We want to maintain a peaceful atmosphere in the campus, said Ramakrishna, ABVP president and a student of OU.Sudharshan, a dalit research scholar who headed the recent beef festival at OU, said, there is nothing like campus becoming impure. We demand immediate arrest of offenders during the beef festival under the SC/ST Atrocity Act.
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08:04 AM, Apr 27, 2012
A student of the Osmania University in Hyderabad was stabbed for supporting a beef festival organised by several student groups opposing "food fascism" in hostels. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 17, 2012
HYDERABAD: A day after the beef festival turned violent on the Osmania University campus, the varsity as well as the festival became hot topics of discussion on the micro-blogging site Twitter on Monday.Users from across the country aired opinions, debated and without hestitation threw muck at one another and importantly, against the university.Noted Dalit activist Meena Kandasamy, who attended the festival, had live Twitter updates on the proceedings and there...
09:28 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after witnessing a clash between rival groups of students over organising a 'beef festival' in the campus, the Osmania University remained calm on Monday even as police continued to keep strict vigil. The situation is normal in the university campus and the group of students opposed to the 'beef festival' boycotted the classes today, a police official said. A 'beef festival' organised by a group of students...
07:13 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Hyderabad: An ABVP student was stabbed during clashes over a beef festival organised by several student groups in Osmania University opposing "food fascism" in hostels, police said on Monday. The beef festival saw clashes, which saw five students being injured, and even led to vehicles being burnt. The situation in the university was tense as violence continued in the campus past midnight with a group of students attacking the 'C'...
03:40 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Hyderabad: A student of the Osmania university was stabbed for supporting a beef festival organised by several student groups opposing "food fascism" in hostels, police said on Monday. There were reports of clashes in Hyderabad where students battled each other at the Osmania University. The clashes came after a group of students decided to organise a 'beef festival' to protest the non-inclusion of beef in the University's menu, while another...
09:12 AM, Apr 16, 2012
