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Beef festival turns Osmania into battlefield, student stabbed

Updated on: 16 April,2012 12:53 PM IST  | 
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A student of Osmania university was stabbed for supporting a beef festival organised by several student groups opposing 'food fascism' in hostels, police said.

Beef festival turns Osmania into battlefield, student stabbed

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There were clashes, which saw five students being injured and vehicles being burnt.

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The situation in the university was tense as violence continued in the campus past midnight with a group of students attacking the 'C' hostel and stabbing a student for supporting the beef festival. Police said the injured student was admitted to Gandhi Hospital here.
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Protestors set afire a bus of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC).
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The clashes broke out Sunday night after some Dalit and left-wing student groups organised a beef festival on the campus, to highlight their demand for including beef in the hostel menu.u00a0
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Over 200 students and some professors attended the festival and ate various dishes made of beef.
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Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists staged a protest against the festival and clashed with the organisers.u00a0
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The two groups attacked each other with stones and sticks. Five students were injured in the clashes. Two vehicles were also set afire.
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Police used teargas shells and batons to disperse the clashing groups. The campus, which witnessed many violent protests over separate Telangana state during last two years, turned into a battlefield.
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The beef festival was organised by Telangana Students Association, Progressive Democratic Student Union, Student Federation of India and student groups from English and Foreign Languages University.
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The organisers claimed that beef is part of their cultural identity and an affordable source of nutrition. They said the festival was to oppose 'food fascism' in university hostels.
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Supporting the demand, PL Visweswara Rao, former professor of communication and journalism at the university, said students have a right to seek a particular food.u00a0
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He alleged that the police and the university administration failed to protect the students participating in the festival.
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Th ABVP, which opposed the beef festival, called for university shutdown Monday.
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Police have sealed all the routes leading to the university and deployed additional police and paramilitary forces on the campus to prevent further clashes.

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