Overview
- The teachers' and non-teaching staff associations joined students in a fast from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm Monday under the Tezpur University United Forum.
- Organisers accuse the absentee vice chancellor of pushing the campus into administrative paralysis while authorities have offered no concrete resolution after 100 days.
- Demands include a probe into alleged corruption, fiscal lapses, and ecological damage such as deforestation on the campus.
- Tensions grew after a September 22 confrontation with students, after which Shambhu Nath Singh stayed away from campus, according to protesters.
- At least 11 faculty members and senior officials have resigned since September, and demonstrators say the hunger strike seeks national attention to governance concerns.