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BJP questions pact with colleges

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore Aug. 23. The spokesman for the State unit of the BJP, S. Suresh Kumar, MLA, has said that while the seat sharing arrangement in private professional colleges between the Government and the managements is welcome, what is of concern is the talk that the latter has already filled the 25 per cent quota of seats allotted to them.

In a statement to the press, Mr. Kumar wondered which 25 per cent of seats the private managements had agreed to accept in their talks with the Government. If what was being stated was to be believed, the managements had defied the Government and gone ahead admitting students. He demanded that the Government protect the interests of students from the middle and lower-income families and not take any decision favouring the managements in fixing the fee structure in professional colleges.

Reacting to the reported warning issued by the President of State unit of the Congress, Janardhana Poojary, to the Minister of State for Revenue, M. Mallikarjuna Nagappa, with regard to drought relief, Mr. Kumar said that it was only an endorsement of what the BJP had been complaining about the ministers for long.

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