The condition of one of the students on hunger strike for the past six days outside the AMU Vice Chancellor''s residence to demand revival of the students'' union, deteriorated today, official sources said.
The sources said that the authorities have alerted the Centre of the fragile peace at the campus.
With the student protesters squatting outside the gate of his residence, AMU Vice Chancellor Prof P K Abdul Azis has been confined to a government guest house outside the University campus for more than 48 hours.
The students have been holding protests for more than three weeks now and despite an attempt last night by top district officials, Azis, turned down the students'' demand for reviving the Union, which has been lying defunct for more than four years now.
Spokesman of the agitating students Mushtaq Ahmed told PTI, "We have written several letters to the Union HRD Minister and two letters to Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi highlighting that all we are seeking is the restoration of our basic democratic rights.
"Not only has the students'' union been shut down but students'' representation to the two main statutory bodies -- the Academic Council and the University Court -- have also been stopped. It is sad that neither Rahul Gandhi nor the HRD Minister has replied to us."
Mushtaq said that "despite the fact that not a single incidence of violence has been reported since the agitation began, there appears to be not a single response from the Central Government to the blatant violation of statutes by the VC."
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