PATNA: The hunger strike by the students of Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) showed no signs of coming to an end on its sixth day. The students’ attempts to meet the CM have failed so far. Even the VC’s attempts to facilitate the meeting have failed to yield any positive result.
In an attempt to break the stalemate, Bar Council of Bihar chairman Baleshwar Prasad Sharma met the law minister Narendra Narain Yadav on students’ behalf and submitted a letter suggesting ways to end the deadlock. “If we are able to place all the 80 students of the final year, the position of the university amongst the 11 other national law colleges will be upgraded phenomenally,” said Sharma, adding “it will surely jump to the fourth position from the tenth rank at present.” It will bring glory to the state, he said.
The students can be accommodated as junior lawyers, assistants to senior advocates and in lok adalats, he said.
Meanwhile, as many as four companies, one of them a Delhi-based company, MG’s Legal Chambers, and other local companies, have visited the university in recent days for campus selection. “Now, since the companies are coming for campus placement, there is no rationale behind students trying to meet the CM,” said A Lakshminath, the varsity VC, adding “I have tried my best to get the companies visit our campus.”
However, a CNLU student said they were not impressed. “None of the companies was of a satisfactory nature,” he said, adding “they cannot expect us to join jobs offering Rs 7,000 or Rs 8,000 as salary, and the interviewers were not from the HR department.”
In the meantime, the condition of a few of 13 students on hunger strike for five days worsened on Friday. Some of them fainted and had to be taken to a private hospital near the university campus. A team of doctors visited the students on hunger strike and, finding their condition deteriorating, advised them to break their fast. A group of five students – Lakshmi Nath, Hemant Verma, Richa Jha, Seema Chaudhary and Tarikh Shamim – replaced the 13 students and sat on relay hunger strike.