Overview

• The YSRCP SC cell led coordinated demonstrations at district headquarters, Ambedkar statues and medical college sites across Andhra Pradesh on September 30.
• Organisers accuse the state of pushing a PPP model that they say amounts to privatising government medical colleges and selling public assets.
• Leaders warn the move would curtail access to medical education for poor, Dalit and backward-class students and weaken affordable healthcare.
• The party says police prevented several organisers from joining, describing the actions as an attempt to stifle the agitation.
• Former minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy alleged Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu plans to hand new colleges to benamis and vowed to keep protesting until the decision is withdrawn, while the government offered no immediate comment.