YSR Congress wooing OU student leaders?

HYDERABAD: Is the YSR Congress Party trying to gain a foothold in Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana movement? If some student leaders are to be believed, the answer is a firm yes. It appears that the party wants to have its own student wing on the campus much like the BJP and the TRS.The student leaders claim that the party has now realised that students and OU are an integral part of protests and allege that it wants to use them to create its own force in the university.Only those students who are apolitical and independent have been approached so far and they claim to have declined the offers.M Krishank, one of the leaders who claimed to have received a call from the party, said, “This is a trick used to lure students in order to use them for instigating violence.”Another student leader M Bhaskar said he and his comrades would never join the party, even if invited, as it was against a separate Telangana. Both student leaders are of the view that they will not be anything but pawns in a much larger game.“We will not be used nor will we allow any other student wing to be floated in Osmania University. We agitate for Telangana, for students, not for corrupt and tainted politicians,” said Krishank.The YSR Congress Party has its own farmers’ wing, teachers’ wing, trade union, youth wing, IT wing, women’s wing, and a youth wing, but it does not have any presence in Osmania University.