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Andhra Pradesh
SFI protests adoption of schools at CM meet
Staff Reporter
— Photo: K.R. Deepak
ACTING TOUGH: Police bodily lifting SFI activists agitating against ‘privatisation of schools’ during Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhars Reddy’s launching of ‘Swikaram’ in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
VISAKHAPATNAM: Members of the Students Federation of India sprang a surprise by their protest at Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy meeting to launch the municipal corporation’s “Swikaram,” a programme of adoption of its schools by donors to improve facilities and infrastructure. Even as he began to honour donors, they took out printed papers opposing what they called “privatisation of municipal schools” and began raising slogans. Caught unawares, police rushed to the spot and restrained them by cordoning off the spot. However, the protestors, who included a few girls, persisted with the protest resulting in lot of jostling and pushing around. The Police bodily lifted and dragged them. The protest continued much after the meeting was over with activists refusing to leave the venue and leading to police detaining seven of them.
The Chief Minister called the students “gullible” and said their doubts were misplaced. Schools were not privatized but money was being spent to improve them, he said. He asked the police to send one of the protesting students on to the dais to express their views.
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