Hunger strike - Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association

New Delhi, March 19: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association on Monday began a three-day hunger strike against the Vice Chancellor's decision of replacing seven Chairpersons and a Dean on March 15.

"The aim of this protest is to expose the lies being generated by the administration in order to cover up its repeated violations of decision-making procedures," said Sudhir Kumar Suthar, the Secretary of Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA).

"Almost 150 teachers from different centres visited professors who are on a hunger strike. Everyone in the university has shown their solidarity towards the satragraha movement we launched on Saturday against this illegal decision," he said.

Three professors - Vikas Rawal of Economic Studies, Pradeep Shinde from Centre for Comparative Politics and Jyoti Bhosle of Informal Sector and Labour studies - will continue the hunger strike for three consecutive days.