KIIT subject: BJD and Congress stage walkout in Odisha Meeting

The Opposition BJD and Congress on Friday, 21 February, staged a walkout within the Odisha Meeting expressing dissatisfaction with the state Increased Training minister Suryabanshi Suraj’s reply to the talk on the KIIT subject.

Members slicing throughout occasion traces expressed disappointment with what occurred at KIIT after the demise of a Nepalese pupil in her hostel room.

The BJD and Congress demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter however the state authorities didn’t reply to their request.

The minister mentioned legislation will take its course and whoever is responsible shall be punished.

The unrest in KIIT started after the alleged suicide of 20-year-old Prakriti Lamsal, a pupil from Nepal, on Sunday afternoon. Different Nepalese college students staged agitation and demanded justice. Nevertheless, the KIIT authorities issued suspension notices to about 1,000 Nepalese college students and requested them to go away the campus on Monday.

Following the intervention of the Centre and the state authorities, the KIIT authorities had tendered an apology and requested the Nepalese college students to return to the campus. The state authorities has opened a round the clock assist desk, to facilitate the Nepalese college students’ protected return.

The police have registered two instances in reference to the alleged suicide of the Nepalese pupil and the next assaults on the youths from the neighbouring nation allegedly by the staffers of KIIT.