Hyderabad: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has called for a state-wide bandh on Tuesday to protest the police lathi-charge on the Osmania University (OU) campus, and to demand that the government immediately fill up the over 1 lakh vacancies in government departments. Other student organisations - SFI, AISF, NSUI and PDSU are participating in the bandh.

All the exams scheduled for Tuesday were cancelled by JNTU and OU due to the bandh call. Students will be intimated the reschedule dates of the postponed exams later.

On Monday, students staged protest rallies on the campus shouting slogans ‘police down down’ and ‘Khabardaar KCR’ following the suicide of PG student E. Murali. Student organisations alleged that the government was responsible for the suicide of the student. Murali committed suicide in his hostel room on Sunday.

Though Murali’s suicide note said he was doing it because he was afraid he would fail his exams, students have alleged that he was depressed because the government had not issued recruitment notifications. They demanded the government to pay Rs 50 lakh to Murali’s family and give his younger brother a job.

L. Ayyappa, the state secretary of the ABVP, urged all educational institutions to extend their support to the bandh by declaring a holiday on Tuesday. He said that ABVP activists had already visited educational institutions in the city, met with their management departments, and requested them to participate in the bandh.

The suicide of OU student E. Murali was a consequence of the government's failure to release job notifications for the 1 lakh existing vacancies to be filled. He said that the police had manipulated the suicide note to cover up this fact and tried to portray that Murali had ended his life due to academic pressure, Ayyappa alleged and demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident.

ABVP has asked the government to prepare an annual recruitment calendar, similar to one issued by the UPSC, and to strictly adhere to that calendar. Ayyappa said that students and the unemployed youth would teach the TRS government a lesson in the 2019 elections if their lot is not improved before it is too late.