Maoists recruitments going on in SU: Social media message

Karimnagar: For the past few days, a message is being circulated in social media that Maoists' activities are going on in Satavahana University (SU) in Karimnagar city.

The message, posted in the name of 'Maoist-Affected Families Welfare Union', stated that one of the student organisations, which is working for the banned Maoist organisation, is involved in the recruitment process from the past few months targeting university students.

After the message became viral on social media, the police started enquiring about the organisation.

The message further stated this student organisation has been recruiting students by telling them that their organisation will fight for students' rights. According to the message, three leaders of this student organisation had recently met the top Maoist leaders in Chhattisgarh and promised the leaders that they would strive to strengthen Maoist organisation and brought huge amounts of funds from them.

The message alleged that many students are getting attracted to the songs and words of Maoists and joining such banned groups and later facing lot of problems. Some of them even lost their lives, it stated.

According to the message, 'there is peaceful atmosphere in villages and people are living in harmony for the past several months without any Maoist activities.

If the Maoist organisation becomes strong again then the villagers' life will be disturbed.'

The message further alleged that a lady professor of the university, belonging to SC category, is encouraging such activities in the university. In the name of study tours, she is taking the students to Chhattisgarh and arranging meetings with the Maoists.

Reacting to the message, Prof S Sujatha said a few people had created this fake message to protect a contract lecturer, who is facing sexual harassment charges and circulating on social media.

She further added, "It is not true that I am taking students to Chhattisgarh on study tours. I took the students to Bhadrachalam for two days to study about the lifestyle of tribal people. First day we stayed at Bugga village in Bhadrachalam and the second day we went to

Papikondalu."

When the student JAC questioned contract lecturer Penchala Srinivas about sexual harassment, Prof Sujatha said that she too questioned him as a working president of 'Teachers Union'. Keeping this in mind, P Srinivas is creating all this non-sense, with the help of others, she alleged.

She clarified that Korivi Suryudu and Doggala Raju are not university students and only Karike Mahesh is university student. All these are baseless, she added.

Meanwhile, a few students said the police officials in civil dress are enquiring about three student union leaders Korivi Suryudu, Karike Mahesh and Doggala Raju and about Prof Surapalli Sujatha.