| College girls forced to sit on ground, BJP workers occupy chairs | | |  Harpreet Singh Sethi
Early Times Report
jammu, May 22: Girl students from different government and private schools were made to sit on the ground during a function to mark the International Biological Diversity Day at Degree College Kathua.
The chairs, eyewitnesses said, were occupied by scores of BJP workers, forcing the girl students to sit on the ground in scorching heat.
Also, the Forest Minister, who was chief guest of the function, did not arrive at the venue on time. The minister was supposed to be at the venue at 9. 30 am. However, he turned up three hours late at 12 pm, said the eyewitnesses.
Ironically, as the girl students were sweating heavily throughout the function, the minister chose not to notice them.
"We are here for many hours. No one came forward to offers us chairs in this sweltering. The authorities concerned chose to appease the BJP workers and ignored the students," some girl students told Early Times.
The students said they were invited to the function with an objective to get some knowledge and awareness regarding the biological diversity.
"If the authorities wanted to please the BJP workers, they shouldn't have invited us and left us in this scorching heat without any seating arrangement," said the students.
The college principal was not available for comments. |
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