KSFEMA meets CM, seeks inquiry into attacks against self-financing colleges

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Self-Finacing Engineering Managements Association (KSFEMA) has asked Chief

Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to conduct an inquiry into the attack on the self-financing engineering colleges in the state in the wake of the strike following the suicide of first year B.Tech student Jishnu Pronoy in Thrissur.

The KSFEMA office-bearers, who also met education minister C. Raveendranath here on Friday, alleged that certain quarters had hatched a conspiracy to launch attacks on the colleges. The attacks on the colleges were carried out by outsiders who have vested interests, they told the chief minister. “The students of the self-financing colleges or activists of students unions have no role in it,” they said.

The chief minister should intervene to ensure the safety of the colleges, they said and demanded that the government ensure that attack on the colleges or equipment of the college did not occur in the future.

They said that the association was willing to cooperate with any inquiry conducted by the government on the allegations of student’s harassments against students.

The KSFEMA officials had sought a detailed discussion with the ministers but the meeting lasted only a few minutes as the chief minister had other engagements .

Meanwhile, ABVP activists waved black flags against the office-bearers of the association while they came out of the meeting. The police arrested and removed the activists while they tried to manhandle them.