HYDERABAD, Feb 10: A large number of employees of Sindh Agriculture University staged a demonstration and hunger strike outside the press club on Sunday demanding removal of Vice-Chancellor Dr Basheer Ahmed Shaikh.

The leaders of the Employees Welfare Trust alleged that the vice chancellor and his sons had plundered the resources of the university and accused the vice chancellor of nepotism and favouritism.

They said that he had appointed at least 15 retired people on whom tens of thousands of rupees were being spent.

They said that university administration had filed at least 22 false cases against students and demanded that the vice chancellor should be removed without delay.—Bureau

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