Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Parliament district president Palla Srinivasa Rao has said that the hurdles being created by the university administraton, to foil the ‘Chalo Andhra University’ protest, cannot prevent the Opposition parties from exposing the ‘corrupt practices’, which he alleged, were taking place on the Andhra University campus.
Making serious allegations of corruption against Vice-Chancellor P.V.G.D. Prasad Reddy at a media conference, in Visakhapatnam on March 4, Mr. Srinivasa Rao and party leader Gandi Babji demanded recall of the Vice-Chancellor and sought a CBI probe into the corruption charges against the V-C. They alleged that the V-C was openly aligning with the ruling party leaders and harassing the professors and staff, who were questioning his actions.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao alleged that the V-C had ordered re-revaluation of the answer scripts of the students of some colleges, which were towing his line, in a bid to favour the students of those colleges. The AU Printing Press was closed and the material was being supplied to some private agency outside the campus. A total of 18 useful courses in arts and science were withdrawn.
