Overview
- Osmania University police detained multiple English and Foreign Languages University student-union representatives during a campus protest against a talk by Telangana RSS leader Lingam Sridhar, and the programme continued as scheduled.
- Students named those held as EFLU Students’ Union president Harshad Shibin, general secretary Irfan Shajudheen, joint secretary Haleemathu Sa’adiya, sports secretary Udita and several councillors and activists from campus groups.
- Protesters said the talk was organised under the Bhagat Singh Youth Club banner and argued the administration had denied permission for other speakers while allowing an RSS-linked event.
- Reporting from the campus accounts the detentions and student demands but does not include a public explanation from the EFLU administration or the police for the permission process or the arrests.
- The incident highlights wider student concerns about political influence in university programming and sets the stage for further campus demands for transparency and possible new protests if officials do not respond.