Resign, DMK cadres tell Anna Univ VC

Coimbatore: DMK members on Thursday staged a protest in front of the Government College of Technology on Thadagam Road, seeking the resignation of Anna University vice-chancellor M K Surappa and condemning the AIADMK government, which, they said, was silent amid the move to undermine the university.
As many as 500 DMK members, headed by party youth wing’s deputy secretary P Pynthamil Pari, participated in the protest. Pari said the university was formed to offer quality technical education to students from SC and MBC communities, and from rural areas. “Under the state, the reservation system of the university doesn’t have creamy layer and non-creamy layer distinction based on income. But if it goes to the hands of the Centre, the distinction would come in, which would undermine the reservation system and social justice,” he said.
Pari accused Surappa of trying to saffronise the university and said the state was a mute spectator.
Police detained some protesters. tnn