Bihar students stranded in Kota on hunger strike, demanding return home

Kota : Due to the applicable lockdown in the country, the movement of the entire country is completely banned. After the implementation of the lockdown, a large number of people are still stranded in other places far from their homes. People trapped in other cities are requesting the government to return home. Now thousands of students of Bihar, who have come to study coaching in Kota, have started a hunger strike to return home.

Students stranded in Kota have appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to send buses to their homes. Students say that students from many other states have left their homes from here, so arrangements should be made to take us from here also. However, the Bihar government has already clarified that it is not possible to bring students from the quota at the moment.

Around 18,000 coaching students who were stuck in the quota due to the lockdown have returned to their respective homes. After the announcement of the lockdown, around 40000 students taking coaching for medical and engineering entrance examinations were stuck in the quota. So far, about 18,000 students from five states and union territories have gone to their respective homes. They include about 12 thousand 500 in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, 2800 in Madhya Pradesh, 350 in Gujarat and 50 children of Dadra-Nagar Haveli. Similarly, 2200 children of other districts of Kota division have also been brought safely to their homes.

While no step has been taken by the Nitish Kumar government to recall the students of Bihar studying in Kota. Bihar Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar had said on Monday that it is not possible to bring children back to Bihar from the quota. Not only this, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed his displeasure at the decision to withdraw students from the quota.

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Even though Chief Minister Nitish Kumar does not seem to agree to recall the students of Kota from Bihar, but after the removal of his students from the quota by the government of several other states including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, the CM of Bihar Pressure has also increased on Nitish Kumar. Not only this, now the students of Bihar have sat on hunger strike in Kota, with this, they have once again appealed to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to arrange buses to return them home.