<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   There were clashes, which saw five students being injured and vehicles being burnt.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The situation in the university was tense as violence continued in the campus past midnight with a group of students attacking the &#39;C&#39; hostel and stabbing a student for supporting the beef festival. Police said the injured student was admitted to Gandhi Hospital here.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Protestors set afire a bus of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC).</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   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</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Over 200 students and some professors attended the festival and ate various dishes made of beef.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists staged a protest against the festival and clashed with the organisers.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The two groups attacked each other with stones and sticks. Five students were injured in the clashes. Two vehicles were also set afire.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   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.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   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.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The organisers claimed that beef is part of their cultural identity and an affordable source of nutrition. They said the festival was to oppose &#39;food fascism&#39; in university hostels.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   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</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   He alleged that the police and the university administration failed to protect the students participating in the festival.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Th ABVP, which opposed the beef festival, called for university shutdown Monday.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Police have sealed all the routes leading to the university and deployed additional police and paramilitary forces on the campus to prevent further clashes.</div>  

A student of Osmania university was stabbed for supporting a beef festival organised by several student groups opposing 'food fascism' in hostels, police said.

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