FAISALABAD, June 6: Dozens of students of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad held a demonstration and set up a protest camp outside the local press club on Monday in protest against the indifferent attitude of the university management. The protesting students chanted slogans against the vice-chancellor and demanded his removal from the post. They also blamed the principal officer of the directorate of students affairs and the other officials concerned for deliberately creating problems for them.

A number of students of the Punjab Medical College and other educational institutions also visited the protest camp and assured their support to the protesting students.

The protesting students said they were expelled from the university on false allegations, but restored by the management following a protest by the elected representatives, student bodies and other forums. However, neither they had been provided the hostel facility nor the management had waved the fine imposed on them, they said.

They claimed that they had met the vice-chancellor and other higher authorities some 70 times during the last three months for the acceptance of their demands, but to no avail. — Correspondent