Classes resume in Hyderabad varsity, relay hunger strike on

"Classes are going on. The administration is also working," said a spokesperson of the Joint Action Committee (JAC).

"We have set a deadline of 10 days. We will continue our agitation in the form of relay hunger strike and organising seminars and rallies peacefully. People from outside also have come to express solidarity with our agitation. (VC) Professor Appa Rao should go. There is no change in that demand," said JAC spokesperson Dickens Leonard.

The SC/ST Faculty Forum, whose members had lent firm support to the agitation, said the teachers had also resumed academic and administrative responsibilities on the request of in-charge vice-chancellor M Periasamy. Periasamy had on Sunday held a meeting of the representatives of JAC to discuss the demands put forward by the student body.

Periasamy took charge of the university after in-charge VC Vipin Srivastava proceeded on leave on Saturday with agitators objecting to him being asked to officiate in the absence of Appa Rao, who had gone on leave after the stir escalated.

The HCU sailed through rough weather with protests ever since Vemula committed suicide in a hostel room on the campus on January 17. 

Subsequently, after Vemula's suicide,the university terminated the suspension of the four students.

The agitation had received support from almost all non-BJP parties and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had visited the campus twice.