LUCKNOW, Dec. 15 -- As Lucknow University students entered the second day of their indefinite hunger strike, demanding the restoration of students' union elections on campus, the condition of one protesting student deteriorated on Friday. Subsequently, the student was taken to the hospital.

The students have been demanding the restoration of student union polls on campus, following which the university had not issued admit cards to a few students sitting on dharna, preventing them from appearing in the exam.

"One of the protesting students, Prasan Shukla, a third-semester BA student sitting on an indefinite hunger strike, fell unconscious after being denied the opportunity to appear in the exam on Friday," said Vindhya Shukla, a postgra...